a/ftape-tools1.07

To:	linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux Tape Mailing List), linux-parport@torque.net (Linux Parport Mailing List), linux-announce@sws1.ctd.ornl.gov
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] ftape-tools-1.07 released, utilities for the Linux floppy tape driver
From:	Claus-Justus Heine <claus@math1.rwth-aachen.de>
Date:	31 Aug 1998 11:38:05 +0200

I'd like to announce the ftape tool's collection revision 1.07.

ftape is a floppy tape device driver for Linux.

ftape-tools-1.07 is a collection of more or less useful utilities for
ftape.

The packages contains


ftmt       -- modified GNU mt version which knows about ftape-3.x/ftape-4.x
              non-standard ioctl calls
ftformat   -- program to format floppy tape cartridges with ftape.
vtblc      -- utility to manipulate the volume table of a floppy tape
              cartridges.
swapout    -- memory de-fragmentation program. Sometimes needed when
              ftape can't allocate its DMA buffers.
listtape   -- Perl script to list the contents of a floppy tape cartridge
ftape-tool -- Tcl/Tk front end to the utilities listed above.

It is planned that the "contrib/" subdirectory of the distribution
contains tips, tricks and patches for various backup programs for use
with ftape. At the moment there is a single patch for the KBackup
program.

The package comes with pre-formatted documentation in info, html and text
format.

Changes in release 1.07
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Reading and modifying the volume table with the Tcl/Tk frontend
"ftape-tool" was broken in previous versions. This should have been
fixed now.

Download
~~~~~~~~

a) From my web page:

   http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/archives.html

b) From sunsite (not yet):

   ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/

Regards

Claus

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