On Tuesday 18 February 2003 02:41 pm, rb AT raphinou DOT com wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:00:26AM -0600, Russell Adams wrote:
>> My bad, I was having an OpenVMS moment. :P
>>
>> Its really...
>>
>>     mt -f /dev/st0 compression off
>
>I don't have this either; I only have (from the manpage) a
>datcompression that take 1(show) , 0 (disables) or nothing
> (enables) as argument.
>
>mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression 0
>
>has worked as wanted (tapeinfo is showing the change).
>
A "Side comment" here in case the mt folks are watching.  I would be 
VERY nice if mt had the same syntax across all the platforms it 
runs on.

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