1 .TH dds2index 1 2.4 \" -*- nroff -*-
5 dds2index \- tool to create an indexfile for the use of
15 creates an index file that is required by the file extraction utility
19 archives stored on dds tape devices (DAT).
20 Since the file structure of the tape archives is
21 used to extract the files, the archive must be an
23 archive. But compression by the transparent
24 signal processor of the tape device is allowed.
30 by default and should normally be stored on hard disk as
35 The default tape device to read from is
37 which may be overridden with the environment variable
39 which in turn may be overridden with the
41 option. The device must be a SCSI tape device.
48 device of the tape archive. Must be a character special file.
57 write the index in (gzip) compressed mode.
60 print some screens of online help with examples through a pager
63 .SH OPTIONS you didn't really need
67 Set the maximal blocksize, dds2index can handle.
71 Don't filter the archive file through gzip.
74 verbose mode. Print to
79 Print a hash sign '#' to
81 for each MB read from tape.
84 Print the version number of
93 Example of getting the index from the default tape /dev/tape
94 and storing it in file archive.idx:
96 dds2index -v -t archive.idx
100 This program can only read records (tar is calling them tape blocks)
101 up to 32 kbytes. A bigger buffer will cause problems with the Linux
106 The environment variable
108 overrides the default tape device /dev/tape.
114 default tape device file. Must be a character special file.
118 dds2tar(1), mt(1), mt-dds(1), tar(1), gzip(1)
123 This program was created as a tool for
129 J"org Weule (weule@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de), Phone +49 211 751409.
130 This software is available at
131 ftp.uni-duesseldorf.de:/pub/unix/apollo