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>  > >Synopsis:       "mt status" does not work with SCSI tape drives.
>  
>  >         mt -f /dev/nrst0 status
>  
>  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.
>  
>  -- 
>  cheers, J"org

my 2 cents:

if you are going to fix the st/mt programs will you PLEASE add the counting
of files/records so that "mt/st stat" gives where you are in a multi-volume
dump/restore. I have to hand patch this everytime a new release is put on
my backup machine (I have not even bothered lately since I have been running
SNAPs through it quite often).

--mark.