Mail Archives: cygwin-announce/2001/11/16/05:29:01
I've updated the version of mt to 2.0.1-1.
This version completely get's rid of the WinNT tape API. It uses
only Cygwin calls to perform it's functionality. It's _not_
independent of the OS, though, since it still prints all the
additional WinNT specific information on `mt status'.
- The default device name is now "/dev/tape". Since that doesn't
exist in Cygwin by default, just create a convenient symlink as
e.g.
mkdir /dev
ln -s /dev/st0 /dev/tape
It's done the same way on Linux systems.
If you don't want to create a symlink you can also just set the
environment variable "TAPE" to a convenient value if you like.
This, too, avoids that you'll have to use the -f option all the
time:
export TAPE=/dev/st0 (ash,bash)
or
setenv TAPE /dev/st0 (tcsh)
- This version still supports setting blocksize to 0 to enable the
"variable blocksize" feature.
- The output of `mt status' is not compatible to GNU-mt, but
corresponds to the abilities of the WinNT tape device driver.
The command `status' reports more infos on `mt status 2' or
`mt status 3'!
- Since this `mt' uses the Cygwin device driver, please note that
using a rewind device name (e.g. /dev/st0) will rewind the tape
after the operation! This is equivalent to Linux. If you e.g.
want to move to block 3, don't be surprised that
mt -f /dev/st0 seek 3
ends up on block 0. In these cases, use the appropriate no-rewind
device instead:
mt -f /dev/nst0 seek 3
Caution: Even using the `status' command will rewind when used
on a rewind tape device!
Tip:
ln -s /dev/nst0 /dev/tape
To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Once you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select the
appropriate package from the list.
Note that we do not allow downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka
cygwin.com) due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need
to find a mirror which has this update.
In the US,
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
is a reliable high bandwidth connection.
In Germany,
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/ is
usually pretty good.
In the UK,
http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/
is usually up-to-date within 48 hours.
If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package then
you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another mirror.
The setup.exe program will figure out what needs to be updated on your
system and will install newer packages automatically.
If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin
mailing list at: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com . I would appreciate it if you would
use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. This includes
ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general.
If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing list
is the appropriate place.
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