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tcopy(1B)

copy a magnetic tape

From the original Amiga UNIX 2.1 manual. Some things it mentions may not be in this release.

NAME

tcopy - copy a magnetic tape

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/tcopy source [ destination ]

DESCRIPTION

tcopy copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end. When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a destination is specified, tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy produces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape.

SEE ALSO

mt(1) ioctl(2) in the Programmer's Reference Manual.

NOTES

tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of ioctl(2) requests.