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NAME

tcopy - copy a magnetic tape

SYNOPSIS

tcopy source [destination]

DESCRIPTION

The tcopy utility 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.


The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device
names. For example,

example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b

SEE ALSO

mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(7)

NOTES

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

March 10, 2000 TCOPY(1)