Tape block problem

[Lawrence Houston]

On Tue, 20 Feb 1996 redwood.dynis.com!ngaur at felix.geog.mcgill.ca wrote:

> This may not be appropriate for the group. But I am putting this
> question because you all dwell a lot in the UNIX world. 
> 
> Is there a UNIX program/command to determin the block size of 
> a media ?

Nalneesh:

Since you posted to the GRASS User's List I assume you are running GRASS? 
GRASS itself has a program called "m.examine.tape" which can report all
the Blocksize on a tape.  This is especially useful if all the blocks are
NOT the of the same size! 

Lawrence Houston  -  (grass at boyd.geog.mcgill.ca)