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1.1: Overview

ftape-tools is a collection of utilities that might be useful in conjunction with the ftape floppy tape device driver for Linux. As far as I know none of the utilities is actually required to use the floppy tape driver, as ftape provides a pretty standard Unix like tape device interface. However, if you want to use special ftape specific ioctls (see Ftmt, see Ftformat, see Vtblc) or run into certain problems when trying to load the driver (see Swapout) you might be better off when using the programs provided in this package. Also, there is a small collection of patches and tips and tricks for commonly used backup programs contains in subdirectories under the `contrib/' (See Contrib) subdirectory.

All compiled programs of this distribution show a banner of the following form when run with the --version.

root@anaxagoras:claus# PROGRAM --version
PROGRAM (ftape-tools) 1.07.3

where PROGRAM is a place holder for the program you are running. This kind of uniform --version option allows to distinguish the programs supplied in this package from their older counter parts that have the same name.


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