man dds-dd (Commandes) - tool to read a dds device.
NAME
dds-dd - tool to read a dds device.
SYNOPSIS
dds-dd [ -f device ]
DESCRIPTION
dds-dd reads a dds tape devices (DAT). Every block is read and written to stdout. A tape with unknown block size or blocks of different size can be read.
The default device is /dev/rmt0, which may be overridden with the environment variable TAPE, which in turn may be overridden with the -f device option. The device must be a character special file.
OPTIONS
- -f device
- Device of the tape archive (default is /dev/rmt0). Must be a character special file connected to a dds tape device.
- -V,--version
- Print the version number of mt-dds to stderr and exit immediately.
- --help
- print some screens of online help with examples through a pager and exit immediately.
EXAMPLES
Example: Read the tape and make a listing: dds-dd | tar ft -
Example: Read the tape and make a listing: dds-dd | cpio -it
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable TAPE overrides the default tape device /dev/rmt0.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
This program was created to use it in conjunction with dds2tar.
AUTHOR
J"org Weule (weule@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de), Phone +49 211 751409. This software is available at ftp.uni-duesseldorf.de:/pub/unix/apollo