dds-dd(1L)

NAME
dds-dd - tool to read a dds device.

SYNOPSIS
dds-dd [ -f device ]

DESCRIPTION
dds-dd reads a dds tape devices (DAT). Every block is read and written to stdout. A tape with unknown block size or blocks of different size can be read.

The default device is /dev/rmt0, which may be overridden with the environment variable TAPE, which in turn may be overridden with the -f device option. The device must be a character special file.

OPTIONS

-f device
    Device of the tape archive (default is /dev/rmt0). Must be a character special file connected to a dds tape device.

-V,--version
    Print the version number of mt-dds to stderr and exit immediately.

--help
    print some screens of online help with examples through a pager and exit immediately.

EXAMPLES
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
    dds-dd | tar ft -

Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
    dds-dd | cpio -it

ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable TAPE overrides the default tape device /dev/rmt0.

SEE ALSO
dds2tar(1), dds2index(1), mt(1), tar(1)

HISTORY
This program was created to use it in conjunction with dds2tar.

AUTHOR
J"org Weule (weule@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de), Phone +49 211 751409. This software is available at ftp.uni-duesseldorf.de:/pub/unix/apollo