1 .TH dds-dd 1 2.4 \" -*- nroff -*-
5 dds-dd \- tool to read a dds device.
18 reads a dds tape devices (DAT). Every block is read and written to
19 stdout. A tape with unknown block size or blocks of different size
24 which may be overridden with the environment variable
26 which in turn may be overridden with the
28 option. The device must be a character special file.
34 Device of the tape archive (default is /dev/rmt0).
35 Must be a character special file connected to a dds tape device.
38 Print the version number of
40 to stderr and exit immediately.
43 print some screens of online help with examples through a pager
49 Read the tape and make a listing:
55 Read the tape and make a listing:
64 The environment variable
66 overrides the default tape device /dev/rmt0.
71 dds2tar(1), dds2index(1), mt(1), tar(1)
75 This program was created to use it in conjunction with dds2tar.
79 J"org Weule (weule@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de), Phone +49 211 751409.
80 This software is available at
81 ftp.uni-duesseldorf.de:/pub/unix/apollo