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5.2.2: Options

-f, --file=FILE

Tape device to use. Default is `/dev/tape'. If this option is missing, then ftmt uses the value of the environment variable TAPE if set. If this environment variable is not set, then ftmt uses `/dev/tape'. If this is missing, too, then ftmt bails out with an error message.


-H, --help

Print help information to STDOUT.


-V, --version

Print version information to STDOUT


-l, --long-numbers

Don't truncate output of tape capacity information using `giga' or `mega' quantifiers. This only affects the output of the `status', `getsize' and `volinfo'. MTIOCGETSIZE (info file ftape-4), and MTIOCVOLINFO (info file ftape-4).


operation [count]

You can find a detailed description of the various tape operations supported by ftape-4.02 as well as examples how to trigger those operations using ftmt in Ioctls (info file ftape-4).


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