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6.1: Listtape Overview

listtape is a simple script that lists the contents of a floppy tape cartridge using special ioctls provided by ftape-3.04d (and later versions). It utilises the ftmt program for this purpose (see Ftmt).

listtape is available either as Perl script or as Bourne shell script. Per default the Perl script version is installed as it is somewhat nicer and more elaborate. The explanations below might be incorrect with respect to the Bourne shell script. So better use the Perl version ...

listtape doesn't support NLS(1) yet. Moreover, it sets the LANG environment variable to `en' so that it can parse the output of ftmt.


(1) Native Language Support


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