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To: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
Cc: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net>,
        hackers@freebsd.org (hackers)
Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jan 96 22:20:09 PST."
             <199601130520.WAA26011@rocky.sri.MT.net> 
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 23:50:31 PST
From: Ben Jackson <bjj@sequent.com>
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In message <199601130520.WAA26011@rocky.sri.MT.net> , you wrote:
> > 	But if I use:
> > 
> > 		mt -f /dev/nrst0 reten
> > 
> > 	I get:
> > 
> > 		% mt reten
> > 		mt: /dev/nrst0: retens: Invalid argument
> 
> Try 'retension'.  It was changed from 'retens' since the former is more
> apparently more standard.

To quote from the mt(1) man page:

     The available commands are listed below.  Only as many characters as are
     required to uniquely identify a command need be specified.

`retens' should be a legal alias for `retension', along with `ret', which
it what I think most people use.  OTOH, I think mt is parsing it fine,
since:

	$ mt blah
	mt: blah: unknown command

--Ben