Forward space over count tape blocks (block-size is set via
`MTSETBLK
', see MTSETBLK).
zftape emulates blocks of a constant length. That is, `MTFSR
' and
`MTBSR
' don't skip floppy tape segments but blocks of a virtual
size between 1 kilobyte and 62 kilobytes depending on what was specified
with `MTSETBLK
' (see MTSETBLK).
Please note the following
MTFSR
' nor `MTBSR
' can skip over file
marks. An attempt to do so will result in an `-EIO
' error code.
mt
program. See Rewinding devices.
ftape-2.x resp. sftape didn't really implement this command. ftape-2.x used this to
let you you change the trace level by specifying the trace level as
argument to this command whereas zftape uses for this the command
MTSETDENSITY
(see MTSETDENSITY) because this will definitely
never be used for real tape operations supported by zftape.
5
', i.e. skip over 5 tape blocks with zftape:
mt -f /dev/nqft0 fsr 5
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