On Wednesday 01 March 2006 09:44, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>   amtapetype: The tape is already used, use -o to overwrite the tape
>
> Uhh, yeah, I used it for a tar.  And you used it after that for
> the "-c" check.  But you didn't complain for the -c check.

I dunno what to say. It's the exact same test both times. And it's not 
checking for the existence of a label. But I will say that it is actually 
very difficult to detect in a portable way if the data on a tape is "real" or 
not.; some tapes will happily give you garbage the first time you read.

--Ian
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