Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man tcopy

User Commands                                            tcopy(1)



NAME
     tcopy - copy a magnetic tape

SYNOPSIS
     tcopy source [destination]


DESCRIPTION
     The tcopy utility copies the magnetic tape  mounted  on  the
     tape  drive  specified  by  the  source  argument.  The only
     assumption made about the contents of a tape is  that  there
     are two tape marks at the end.


     When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape,
     and displays information about the sizes of records and tape
     files. If a destination is specified, tcopy makes  a  copies
     the  source  tape  onto  the destination tape, with blocking
     preserved. As it copies, tcopy produces the same  output  as
     it does when only scanning a tape.


     The tcopy utility requires the  use  of  Berkeley-compatible
     device names. For example,

       example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b



ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     ________________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |         ATTRIBUTE VALUE         |
    |_____________________________|_________________________________|
    | Availability                | system/extended-system-utilities|
    |_____________________________|_________________________________|


SEE ALSO
     mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)

NOTES
     tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated  set
     of  ioctl(2) requests.







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