You could get a copy of the source for mt to control the tape, as for read
or write to the tape, you simply open /dev/tape as a file and read or
write to it (ie, you can cat to and from /dev/tape).

-CJO-

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Edward Rosales Diaz wrote:

>Hi 
>anybody know if I  can write a program in C that access to the tape??
>any suggestions?
>thanks.
>
>
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