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dds-dd - tool to read a dds device.
dds-dd [ -f device ]
dds-dd reads a dds tape devices (DAT). Every block is read and written to stdout. A tape with unknown block size or blocks of different size can be read.
The default device is /dev/rmt0, which may be overridden with the environment variable TAPE, which in turn may be overridden with the -f device option. The device must be a character special file.
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
The environment variable TAPE overrides the default tape device /dev/rmt0.
This program was created to use it in conjunction with dds2tar.
J"org Weule (weule@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de), Phone +49 211 751409. This software is available at ftp.uni-duesseldorf.de:/pub/unix/apollo
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