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Basic Information on tpcp
Task: tpcp
Purpose: Tape copy.
Categories: tools
tpcp is a utility to copy to or from a tape.
Usage:
tpcp [-b blocksize] in out
where in is the input, which may be either a disk file or a tape
device. Similarly out may be either a file or a tape device.
If the input is a file and the output is a tape device, the "-b"
flag should be used to set the block size of write operations.
Example:
Tape-to-tape copy: tpcp /dev/nrst0 /dev/nrst1
Tape-to-disk copy: tpcp /dev/nrst0 data.fits
Disk-to-tape copy: tpcp -b 2880 data.fits /dev/nrst0
Generated by miriad@atnf.csiro.au on 21 Jun 2016