IRIX® TMF User's Guide

Table of Contents

Guide

About This Guide

1. Related Publications

2. TMF Man Pages

3. Obtaining Publications

4. Conventions

5. Reader Comments

1. Introduction

1.1. Software Overview

1.2. Terminology

2. Tape Formats

2.1. IBM Compatible Tape Format

2.2. Tape Label Fields

3. TMF Tutorial

3.1. Working with TMF and UNICOS Tape Subsystem Differences

3.2. Using Tapes

3.3. Obtaining Tape Status

3.4. Using Standard IRIX Commands

4. Writing C Applications Using Tapes

4.1. Using FFIO

4.2. Using System Calls: read and write

4.3. Using System Calls: ioctl

A. Interpreting System Messages

B. Man Pages

Index