Bug 171339 - mt man page misdescribes fsfm and bsfm arguments
Summary: mt man page misdescribes fsfm and bsfm arguments
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 171340
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mt-st
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-20 21:31 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2013-07-02 23:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-10-21 06:35:04 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2005-10-20 21:31:51 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7

Description of problem:
The operation of the fsfm and bsfm arguments is mis-described in the mt man page. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mt-st-0.8-5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read the mt man page.
2.
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Actual Results:  The man page includes this description:

       bsfm   Backward space count files.  The tape is positioned on the first
              block of the next file.

... and similarly for fsfm.

Expected Results:  The bsfm description should say that "The tape is positioned on the first block of the previous file.", and that fsfm moves to the next file.

Additional info:

Even that description is a bit misleading, in that to re-read a tape file that you've just read requires a "bsfm 2" to return to the beginning of the just-read file.  Perhaps something brief description of how file marks are used in tape positioning would be in order.

Comment 1 Jindrich Novy 2005-10-21 06:35:04 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171340 ***


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