preload_tape(1)

📦 version 1.72_release+6.a11b6777660b, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💾 NAME 💾

Okay so this is the preload_tape(1) page from the User Commands manual, and the command itself is preload_tape — a utility to write a file directly to virtual media. Slay. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

The shape of it is literally:

preload_tape [ -h ]
preload_tape [ OPTIONS]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Dump the contents of the specified PCL. If a library is specified, look there, else look through all of the libraries. Lowkey no cap, that’s the whole flow. 🦋

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h — display usage information and exit. It’s giving “show me the usage info and bounce.” 🚪
  • -v — be verbose. Highkey just turn up the verbosity. 🗣️
  • -d — print debugging information. Debug mode, bestie. 🐛
  • -llib_no — this is the library-index option, spelled out here as -l n, where lib_no is the library index number. The default library index numbers are 10 & 30. Library index stuff, iykyk. 🗂️
  • -m PCL — here PCL is the Physical Cartridge Label (barcode). This is required, periodt. 🏷️
  • -F <filename> — here <filename> is the source of the data to write 'in' virtual media format. 📄
  • -b block_size — here block_size is the size of the 'tape block' — e.g. -b 65535 will write in 64k blocks. The way that works? Blocky. 🧱
  • -c LZO|ZLIB|NONE — compress data before writing in virtual media format. 🗜️

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Written by Mark Harvey. Main character energy, honestly iconic. 👑

😭 BUGS 😭

Needs to be made user friendly. Not me nodding at that. 😭

📣 REPORTING BUGS 📣

Report bugs to <markh794@gmail.com>. 📬

Copyright © 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

The whole crew is here, and they ate:

This page is from mhvtl 1.72_release+6.a11b6777660..., dated May 2025 — bye bestie, go write that file directly to virtual media! 💖✨

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