TMF User's Guide

Table of Contents

New Features in This Guide

About This Guide

1. Related Publications

2. TMF Man Pages

3. Obtaining Publications

4. Conventions

5. Reader Comments

1. Software Overview

1.1. Architecture

1.2. Tape Label Support

1.3. Resource Management

1.4. Volume Mounting and Unmounting

1.5. Tape Positioning

1.6. Front-End Servicing

1.7. User End-of-Volume Processing

1.8. Multifile Volume Allocation

1.9. Concatenated Tape Files

1.10. Tape Message Log File

1.11. Terminology

2. Tape Formats

2.1. IBM Compatible Tape Format

2.2. Tape Label Fields

3. TMF Tutorial

3.1. Using Tapes

3.2. Obtaining Tape Status

3.3. Using Standard 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