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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>> I was under the impression that we were going to merge st and mt together,
>> and that this was the reason for not bringing st over in the first place.

>I was under the impression that st was removed from 2.0-RELEASE because
>of the impending merge.  It is a rather dubious practice to remove a 

st has never been in 2.x.  It is in 1.1.5, and no one got around to bringing
it over.

>Actually, there are three tape commands mt, st, and ft.  If st is
>eliminated on historical grounds, then ft should also suffer the same
>fate.

ft is quite different from the others.  mt and st have little more than
ioctls, while ft handles blocking and error correction of data.

Bruce