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> > Half an hour ago, i just thought: `What would people think, is it
> > better to revive the old 1.1.5 ``st'' program, or merge over Julian's
> > changes into our ``mt'' program?'
> > 
> > I'd vote for the latter.
> 
> Please merge the 1.x st program into the 2.x mt program.  We do not need
> 2 programs for this!  (Someplace in the 1.x code I think it even says
> that some day this should be merged with mt(1).)

Just to clarify things:

Is such a merge needed because of non-overlapping feature sets, or is
it because there is not a uniform ioctl() interface to tape devices?

If the latter, would it be easier to modify the tape devices a little
and the control program a little instead of the control program a lot?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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