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R is for Raw. It's that simple.

See tm(4), 7th Edition Unix says it clearly, but I won't type that in by hand.

Berkeley 2.9 has tm(4) saying:

       The mt files discussed above are useful when it is desired
       to  access  the  tape  in  a  way compatible with ordinary
       files.  When foreign tapes are to be dealt with, and espe-
       cially  when  long  records are to be read or written, the
       `raw' interface is appropriate.  The associated files  are
       named  rmt0,  ...,  rmt15,  and nrmt0, ..., nrmt15 but the
       same minor-device considerations as for the regular  files
       still  apply. 






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