Mag-Tape 1.2

The mag-tape package is a collection of utilities for manipulating UNIX magnetic tapes, including copying and comparing tapes.

Files for Download

There are several ways to obtain this software, either as source code or a pre-compiled binaries.

[1]

The Master Sources

The following files are available for download from this web site:

FileDescription
mag-tape-1.2.README The README file from the tarball.
mag-tape-1.2.tar.gz The complete source for the mag-tape program.


[2]

Ubuntu Packages

If you use Ubuntu Linux, there are pre-built packages available for installation using the normal sudo apt-get install method, from this package archive (PPA).

Instructions are available there for how to manually add the PPA to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, but the following commands are sufficient on recent versions of Ubuntu: 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmiller-opensource/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mag-tape
[3]

Aegis Repo

Mag-Tape is developed using Aegis, a transaction based software configuration management system.

The Aegis repository for this project is available.


[GNU Head] Mag-Tape is written and owned by Peter Miller <pmiller@ opensource. org. au> and is freely distributable under the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL. There is more Software by Peter Miller at his home page.
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