.th TM IV 10/15/73 .sh NAME tm \*- TM-11/TU-10 magtape interface .sh DESCRIPTION The files .it "mt0, ..., mt7" refer to the DEC TU10/TM11 magtape. When opened for reading or writing, the magtape is rewound. A tape consists of a series of 512 byte records terminated by an end-of-file. When the magtape is closed after writing, an end-of-file is written. .s3 The magtape can only be opened once at any instant. .sh FILES /dev/mt? .sh "SEE ALSO" tp(I) .sh BUGS If you hit the EOF mark or get other non-data errors it refuses to do anything more until closed. There has to be some reasonable way to deal with multi-file tapes.