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8.5.1.4: MTFSR

Forward space over count tape blocks (block-size is set via `MTSETBLK', see MTSETBLK).

zftape emulates blocks of a constant length. That is, `MTFSR' and `MTBSR' don't skip floppy tape segments but blocks of a virtual size between 1 kilobyte and 62 kilobytes depending on what was specified with `MTSETBLK' (see MTSETBLK).

Please note the following

ftape-2.x resp. sftape didn't really implement this command. ftape-2.x used this to let you you change the trace level by specifying the trace level as argument to this command whereas zftape uses for this the command MTSETDENSITY (see MTSETDENSITY) because this will definitely never be used for real tape operations supported by zftape.

Example
count set to `5', i.e. skip over 5 tape blocks with zftape:

mt -f /dev/nqft0 fsr 5

References
see MTBSR
see MTSETBLK
see Rewinding devices
see MTSETDENSITY
see Configure ftape


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