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# 368675 15-Dec-2020 ken

MFC r368525:
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r368525 | ken | 2020-12-10 16:06:06 -0500 (Thu, 10 Dec 2020) | 17 lines

Add the LTO-9 density code to libmt and the mt(1) man page.

These values are taken directly from the density report from an
IBM LTO-9 tape drive. (Using mt getdensity)

A LTO-9 drive stores 18TB raw (45TB with compression) on an LTO-9 tape.

lib/libmt/mtlib.c:
Add the LTO-9 density code, and bpmm/bpi values.

usr.bin/mt/mt.1:
Add the LTO-9 density code, bpmm/bpi values and number of
tracks. Bump the man page date.

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Sponsored by: Spectra Logic


# 347884 16-May-2019 ken

MFC 344761:
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r344761 | ken | 2019-03-04 09:30:37 -0500 (Mon, 04 Mar 2019) | 18 lines

Add IBM TS1160 density codes to libmt and the mt(1) man page.

These are taken directly from the density report from a TS1160
tape drive. (Using mt getdensity)

A TS1160 drive stores 20TB raw (60TB with compression) on a JE tape.

lib/libmt/mtlib.c:
Add 3592A6 encrypted/unencrypted density codes, and bpmm/bpi
values.

usr.bin/mt/mt.1:
Add 3592B5 encrypted/unencrypted density codes, bpmm/bpi
values and number of tracks. Bump the man page date.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic

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# 325495 06-Nov-2017 ken

MFC r325371
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r325371 | ken | 2017-11-03 15:04:22 -0600 (Fri, 03 Nov 2017) | 19 lines

Add the LTO-8 Type M density code (0x5d, LTO-8M) to libmt and the
mt(1) man page.

LTO-8 Type M (also known as M8) is a pristine LTO-7 cartridge
formatted in a LTO-8 drive in a new, higher density format. It
has a separate density code, and is only readable in an LTO-8
drive.

lib/libmt/mtlib.c:
Add the LTO-8 Type M density code to the density table
in libmt.

usr.bin/mt/mt.1:
Add the LTO-8 Type M density code to the density
table in the mt(1) man page.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic

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# 322788 22-Aug-2017 ken

MFC r322410:
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r322410 | ken | 2017-08-11 12:43:52 -0600 (Fri, 11 Aug 2017) | 16 lines

Add historical notes on QIC tape drives and fix a couple of issues in mt(1).

o Density code 0x5 is also known as QIC-11, and should have a footnote
reference.
o Add notes on QIC tape drives from the bug report. These may help anyone
trying to use a QIC drive.
o Take out a "more more" instance found by igor.
o Bump the man page date.

The PR is 14 years old, so it's past time to retire it.

PR: doc/53596
Submitted by: tedm@toybox.placo.com
Reviewed by: bcr
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic

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# 322366 10-Aug-2017 ken

MFC r320991, r322016:

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r320991 | ken | 2017-07-14 10:45:46 -0600 (Fri, 14 Jul 2017) | 17 lines

Add IBM TS1155 density codes to libmt and the mt(1) man page.

These are taken directly from the density report from a TS1155
tape drive. (Using mt getdensity)

lib/libmt/mtlib.c:
Add 3592B5 encrypted/unencrypted density codes, and bpmm/bpi
values. The bpmm/bpi values are the same as TS1150, but
there are 50% more tracks.

usr.bin/mt/mt.1:
Add 3592B5 encrypted/unencrypted density codes, bpmm/bpi
values and number of tracks. Bump the man page date.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic

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r322016 | ken | 2017-08-03 09:04:54 -0600 (Thu, 03 Aug 2017) | 6 lines

Oracle T10000 tape drives use PRML encoding.

Source: Oracle T10000 SCSI reference guide.
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic

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# 318296 15-May-2017 ken

MFC r318185:

Add LTO-8 density codes.

lib/libmt/mtlib.c:
Add the LTO-8 density code to the density table in libmt.

usr.bin/mt/mt.1:
Add the LTO-8 density code, tracks, bpmm, and bpi to the density
table in the mt(1) man page.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic


# 317963 08-May-2017 ken

MFC r317848:

Add basic programmable early warning error injection to the sa(4) driver.

This will help application developers simulate end of tape conditions.

To inject an error in sa0:

sysctl kern.cam.sa.0.inject_eom=1

This will return the next read or write request queued with 0 bytes
written. Any subsequent writes or reads will go along as usual.

This will also cause the early warning position flag to get set
for the next position query. So, 'mt status' will show the BPEW
(Beyond Programmable Early Warning) flag on the first query after
an error injection. After that, the position flags will be as they
are in the underlying tape drive.

Also, update the sa(4) man page to describe tape parameters,
which can be set via 'mt param'.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_sa.c:
In saregister(), create the inject_eom sysctl variable.

In sastart(), check to see whether inject_eom is set. If
so, return the read or write with 0 bytes written to
indicate EOM. Set the set_pews_status flag so that we
fake PEWS status in the next position call for reads, and the
next 3 calls for writes. This allows the user to see the BPEW
flag one time via 'mt status'.

In sagetpos(), check the set_pews_status flag and fake
PEWS status and decrement the counter if it is set.

share/man/man4/sa.4:
Document the inject_eom sysctl variable.

Document all of the parameters currently supported via
'mt param'.

usr.bin/mt/mt.1:
Point the user to the sa(4) man page for more details on
supported parameters.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic


# 313868 17-Feb-2017 bapt

MFC r313659-r313673

r313659:
Remove space at and of line

Reported by: make manlint
MFC after: 2 days

r313660:
Remove empty Li

Reported by: make manlint
MFC after: 2 days

r313661:
Escape Ss to avoid confusion by mdoc parser with the Ss macro

Reported by: make manlint
MFC after: 2 days

r313662:
Add missing -width after -Bl -tag

Reported by: make manlint
MFC after: 2 days

r313663:
Add missing section after .Xr reference

r313664:
Escape No to avoid confusion with the No macro

r313665:
Remove useless .Pp after the .Sh macro and remove empty line

r313666:
Remove empty space at EOL and escept Ed

r313667:
Remove spaces at EOL and sort correctly the SEE ALSO section

r313668:
Add missing section in manpage reference

r313669:
Properly use .An macro before Authors name

r313670:
Escape Sm to avoid confusion with Sm macro

r313671:
Use correct date format

r313672:
Remove useless Li macro

r313673:
Remove spaces at end of line

Reported by: make manlint


# 302408 07-Jul-2016 gjb

Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


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# 300327 20-May-2016 ken

Add the density code for LTO-7 to libmt and the mt(1) man page.

The density code and bits per mm values were obtained from an
actual drive density report.

The number of tracks were obtained from an LTO-7 hardware
announcement on IBM's web site.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
MFC after: 3 days


# 279570 03-Mar-2015 ken

Add density code for DAT-72, and notes on DAT-160.

As it turns out, the density code for DAT-160 (0x48) is the same
as for SDLT220. Since the SDLT values are already in the table,
we will leave them in place.

Thanks to Harald Schmalzbauer for confirming the DAT-72 density code.

lib/libmt/mtlib.c:
Add DAT-72 density code, and commented out DAT-160 density
code. Explain why DAT-160 is commented out. Add notes
explaining where the bpi values for these formats came from.

usr.bin/mt/mt.1:
Add DAT-72 density code, and add a note explaining that
the SDLTTapeI(110) density code (0x48) is the same as
DAT-160.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
MFC after: 3 weeks


# 279219 23-Feb-2015 ken

Significant upgrades to sa(4) and mt(1).

The primary focus of these changes is to modernize FreeBSD's
tape infrastructure so that we can take advantage of some of the
features of modern tape drives and allow support for LTFS.

Significant changes and new features include:

o sa(4) driver status and parameter information is now exported via an
XML structure. This will allow for changes and improvements later
on that will not break userland applications. The old MTIOCGET
status ioctl remains, so applications using the existing interface
will not break.

o 'mt status' now reports drive-reported tape position information
as well as the previously available calculated tape position
information. These numbers will be different at times, because
the drive-reported block numbers are relative to BOP (Beginning
of Partition), but the block numbers calculated previously via
sa(4) (and still provided) are relative to the last filemark.
Both numbers are now provided. 'mt status' now also shows the
drive INQUIRY information, serial number and any position flags
(BOP, EOT, etc.) provided with the tape position information.
'mt status -v' adds information on the maximum possible I/O size,
and the underlying values used to calculate it.

o The extra sa(4) /dev entries (/dev/saN.[0-3]) have been removed.

The extra devices were originally added as place holders for
density-specific device nodes. Some OSes (NetBSD, NetApp's OnTap
and Solaris) have had device nodes that, when you write to them,
will automatically select a given density for particular tape drives.

This is a convenient way of switching densities, but it was never
implemented in FreeBSD. Only the device nodes were there, and that
sometimes confused users.

For modern tape devices, the density is generally not selectable
(e.g. with LTO) or defaults to the highest availble density when
the tape is rewritten from BOT (e.g. TS11X0). So, for most users,
density selection won't be necessary. If they do need to select
the density, it is easy enough to use 'mt density' to change it.

o Protection information is now supported. This is either a
Reed-Solomon CRC or CRC32 that is included at the end of each block
read and written. On write, the tape drive verifies the CRC, and
on read, the tape drive provides a CRC for the userland application
to verify.

o New, extensible tape driver parameter get/set interface.

o Density reporting information. For drives that support it,
'mt getdensity' will show detailed information on what formats the
tape drive supports, and what formats the tape drive supports.

o Some mt(1) functionality moved into a new mt(3) library so that
external applications can reuse the code.

o The new mt(3) library includes helper routines to aid in parsing
the XML output of the sa(4) driver, and build a tree of driver
metadata.

o Support for the MTLOAD (load a tape in the drive) and MTWEOFI
(write filemark immediate) ioctls needed by IBM's LTFS
implementation.

o Improve device departure behavior for the sa(4) driver. The previous
implementation led to hangs when the device was open.

o This has been tested on the following types of drives:
IBM TS1150
IBM TS1140
IBM LTO-6
IBM LTO-5
HP LTO-2
Seagate DDS-4
Quantum DLT-4000
Exabyte 8505
Sony DDS-2

contrib/groff/tmac/doc-syms,
share/mk/bsd.libnames.mk,
lib/Makefile,
Add libmt.

lib/libmt/Makefile,
lib/libmt/mt.3,
lib/libmt/mtlib.c,
lib/libmt/mtlib.h,
New mt(3) library that contains functions moved from mt(1) and
new functions needed to interact with the updated sa(4) driver.

This includes XML parser helper functions that application writers
can use when writing code to query tape parameters.

rescue/rescue/Makefile:
Add -lmt to CRUNCH_LIBS.

src/share/man/man4/mtio.4
Clarify this man page a bit, and since it contains what is
essentially the mtio.h header file, add new ioctls and structure
definitions from mtio.h.

src/share/man/man4/sa.4
Update BUGS and maintainer section.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.c,
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.h:
Add SCSI SECURITY PROTOCOL IN/OUT CDB definitions and CDB building
functions.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_sa.c
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_sa.h
Many tape driver changes, largely outlined above.

Increase the sa(4) driver read/write timeout from 4 to 32
minutes. This is based on the recommended values for IBM LTO
5/6 drives. This may also avoid timeouts for other tape
hardware that can take a long time to do retries and error
recovery. Longer term, a better way to handle this is to ask
the drive for recommended timeout values using the REPORT
SUPPORTED OPCODES command. Modern IBM and Oracle tape drives
at least support that command, and it would allow for more
accurate timeout values.

Add XML status generation. This is done with a series of
macros to eliminate as much duplicate code as possible. The
new XML-based status values are reported through the new
MTIOCEXTGET ioctl.

Add XML driver parameter reporting, using the new MTIOCPARAMGET
ioctl.

Add a new driver parameter setting interface, using the new
MTIOCPARAMSET and MTIOCSETLIST ioctls.

Add a new MTIOCRBLIM ioctl to get block limits information.

Add CCB/CDB building routines scsi_locate_16, scsi_locate_10,
and scsi_read_position_10().

scsi_locate_10 implements the LOCATE command, as does the
existing scsi_set_position() command. It just supports
additional arguments and features. If/when we figure out a
good way to provide backward compatibility for older
applications using the old function API, we can just revamp
scsi_set_position(). The same goes for
scsi_read_position_10() and the existing scsi_read_position()
function.

Revamp sasetpos() to take the new mtlocate structure as an
argument. It now will use either scsi_locate_10() or
scsi_locate_16(), depending upon the arguments the user
supplies. As before, once we change position we don't have a
clear idea of what the current logical position of the tape
drive is.

For tape drives that support long form position data, we
read the current position and store that for later reporting
after changing the position. This should help applications
like Bacula speed tape access under FreeBSD once they are
modified to support the new ioctls.

Add a new quirk, SA_QUIRK_NO_LONG_POS, that is set for all
drives that report SCSI-2 or older, as well as drives that
report an Illegal Request type error for READ POSITION with
the long format. So we should automatically detect drives
that don't support the long form and stop asking for it after
an initial try.

Add a partition number to the sa(4) softc.

Improve device departure handling. The previous implementation
led to hangs when the device was open.

If an application had the sa(4) driver open, and attempted to
close it after it went away, the cam_periph_release() call in
saclose() would cause the periph to get destroyed because that
was the last reference to it. Because destroy_dev() was
called from the sa(4) driver's cleanup routine (sacleanup()),
and would block waiting for the close to happen, a deadlock
would result.

So instead of calling destroy_dev() from the cleanup routine,
call destroy_dev_sched_cb() from saoninvalidate() and wait for
the callback.

Acquire a reference for devfs in saregister(), and release it
in the new sadevgonecb() routine when all devfs devices for
the particular sa(4) driver instance are gone.

Add a new function, sasetupdev(), to centralize setting
per-instance devfs device parameters instead of repeating the
code in saregister().

Add an open count to the softc, so we know how many
peripheral driver references are a result of open
sessions.

Add the D_TRACKCLOSE flag to the cdevsw flags so
that we get a 1:1 mapping of open to close calls
instead of a N:1 mapping.

This should be a no-op for everything except the
control device, since we don't allow more than one
open on non-control devices.

However, since we do allow multiple opens on the
control device, the combination of the open count
and the D_TRACKCLOSE flag should result in an
accurate peripheral driver reference count, and an
accurate open count.

The accurate open count allows us to release all
peripheral driver references that are the result
of open contexts once we get the callback from devfs.

sys/sys/mtio.h:
Add a number of new mt(4) ioctls and the requisite data
structures. None of the existing interfaces been removed
or changed.

This includes definitions for the following new ioctls:

MTIOCRBLIM /* get block limits */
MTIOCEXTLOCATE /* seek to position */
MTIOCEXTGET /* get tape status */
MTIOCPARAMGET /* get tape params */
MTIOCPARAMSET /* set tape params */
MTIOCSETLIST /* set N params */

usr.bin/mt/Makefile:
mt(1) now depends on libmt, libsbuf and libbsdxml.

usr.bin/mt/mt.1:
Document new mt(1) features and subcommands.

usr.bin/mt/mt.c:
Implement support for mt(1) subcommands that need to
use getopt(3) for their arguments.

Implement a new 'mt status' command to replace the old
'mt status' command. The old status command has been
renamed 'ostatus'.

The new status function uses the MTIOCEXTGET ioctl, and
therefore parses the XML data to determine drive status.
The -x argument to 'mt status' allows the user to dump out
the raw XML reported by the kernel.

The new status display is mostly the same as the old status
display, except that it doesn't print the redundant density
mode information, and it does print the current partition
number and position flags.

Add a new command, 'mt locate', that will supersede the
old 'mt setspos' and 'mt sethpos' commands. 'mt locate'
implements all of the functionality of the MTIOCEXTLOCATE
ioctl, and allows the user to change the logical position
of the tape drive in a number of ways. (Partition,
block number, file number, set mark number, end of data.)
The immediate bit and the explicit address bits are
implemented, but not documented in the man page.

Add a new 'mt weofi' command to use the new MTWEOFI ioctl.
This allows the user to ask the drive to write a filemark
without waiting around for the operation to complete.

Add a new 'mt getdensity' command that gets the XML-based
tape drive density report from the sa(4) driver and displays
it. This uses the SCSI REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT command
to get comprehensive information from the tape drive about
what formats it is able to read and write.

Add a new 'mt protect' command that allows getting and setting
tape drive protection information. The protection information
is a CRC tacked on to the end of every read/write from and to
the tape drive.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
MFC after: 1 month


# 216370 11-Dec-2010 joel

Remove the advertising clause from UCB copyrighted files in usr.bin. This
is in accordance with the information provided at
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change

Also add $FreeBSD$ to a few files to keep svn happy.

Discussed with: imp, rwatson


# 175551 21-Jan-2008 trhodes

Note what options are only for DDS drives.

PR: 35608


# 152568 18-Nov-2005 ru

-mdoc sweep.


# 150758 30-Sep-2005 garys

A minor overhaul: added comments, split cmds in 2, changed synopsis.

Split commands into two groups: one with optional count and one with
required argument. Changed synopsis line accordingly.

Added some hopefully-helpful comments based on experiments, knowing
that not all hardware works the same.

PR: docs/84101
Approved by: keramida
MFC after: 3 days


# 144565 03-Apr-2005 imp

Don't refer to devices that don't exist.


# 141851 13-Feb-2005 ru

Expand contractions.


# 131507 02-Jul-2004 ru

Deal with double whitespace.


# 131491 02-Jul-2004 ru

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.


# 119774 05-Sep-2003 roam

Change /dev/rsa0 and /dev/rwt0 references to sa0 and wt0.

PR: 55925
Submitted by: Michael L. Squires <mikes@siralan.org>
MFC after: 1 month


# 115217 21-May-2003 ru

Markup bits.

Approved by: re (blanket)


# 114318 30-Apr-2003 schweikh

Fix references to non-existing or obsoleted man pages.

PR: docs/51480 (only a small part)
Submitted by: Diomidis D. Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>


# 105155 15-Oct-2002 joerg

Add information about the SDLT density codes.

Submitted by: "Stewart MacLund" <sundie@lunaticfringe.org>
MFC after: 1 week


# 99653 09-Jul-2002 joerg

Add definitions for the industry-standard DLT density codes.

Obtained from: Quantum DLT8000 manual
MFC after: 1 week


# 97539 30-May-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: removed unnecessary .Ns.


# 95124 20-Apr-2002 charnier

Use `The .Nm utility'


# 94505 12-Apr-2002 charnier

Make `make WARNS=3' succeed, notably, use %d to printf daddr_t value.
Use `.Nm Ns .' instead of `.Nm .' Add FBSDID. Do not put spaces inside []
in usage string.


# 81622 14-Aug-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: s/BSD/.Bx/ where appropriate.


# 79755 15-Jul-2001 dd

Remove whitespace at EOL.


# 79535 10-Jul-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call.


# 79366 06-Jul-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: sort SEE ALSO xrefs (sort -b -f +2 -3 +1 -2).


# 70545 31-Dec-2000 mjacob

Oops, I'm such an idiot. For reasons I don't really agree with,
all devices are by default known by their 'cooked' name, so
my change was wrong. I thought it was a hangover from old 'block
tape device' support which hasn't worked (if it ever did) since
v6/PWB.

So, the default tape name is now the same as Linux. Far out, man....


# 70534 31-Dec-2000 mjacob

The default is /dev/nrsa0 (now), not /dev/nsa0.


# 70197 19-Dec-2000 ru

Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.


# 68963 20-Nov-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.


# 64716 16-Aug-2000 imp

Add cross reference to the ast device.
Remove reference to the now defunct wt device.


# 59649 26-Apr-2000 obrien

Default device not longer uses the "r" raw prefix.


# 58615 26-Mar-2000 charnier

Add missing dots


# 57695 02-Mar-2000 sheldonh

Remove more single-space hard sentence breaks.


# 57670 01-Mar-2000 sheldonh

Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.


# 50477 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 48792 12-Jul-1999 nik

Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

.\" $Id$
.\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by: bde


# 46928 10-May-1999 mjacob

add and document seteotmodel and geteotmodel commands


# 46433 04-May-1999 ghelmer

Add missing parenthesis. Change "hardware block" to "SCSI logical block".
While I'm here, fix dangling "to".

PR: docs/9940


# 43628 05-Feb-1999 mjacob

finally document new commands


# 39260 15-Sep-1998 gibbs

Augment compression and blocksize support. Update table of known densities.


# 29988 29-Sep-1997 wosch

Sort cross refereces in section SEE ALSO.


# 28492 21-Aug-1997 joerg

Implement "eod" as an alias for "eom". HP-UX uses this name, for
example.

Also cleaned up the man page a little.


# 27752 29-Jul-1997 charnier

Use err(3) instead of local redefinition.


# 17786 22-Aug-1996 mpp

Use the .Fx macro where appropriate.


# 13409 13-Jan-1996 joerg

Forgot to update the man page for the `retension' command.


# 13348 08-Jan-1996 joerg

Add `retens', the user frontend for MTRETENS.


# 9541 16-Jul-1995 joerg

Remove the dangerous "eof" command that used to be an alias for "weof"
but usually got confused with "eom". It didn't ring the warning bell
saying: "You are probably going to mark your whole tape as deleted
right now."

A warning message pointing to "weof" and "eom" is issued instead.


# 7929 18-Apr-1995 joerg

Make mt(1) orthogonal: now that we print the densities as strings
instead of hex, make it accept density names for input, too.


# 7913 17-Apr-1995 joerg

Round #1 of my st(1) -> mt(1) merge. All the commands should be
covered now, and i've attempted to give textual representations
instead of magic numbers.

The st(4) driver still misses some pieces; i'm going to implement the
EOM functionality RSN.

Any takers for the MTCOMP command? Seems to have never been implemented.


# 3964 28-Oct-1994 jkh

Andreas Klemm's tape erase patches from 1.1.5.1.
Submitted by: andreas


# 1591 27-May-1994 rgrimes

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r1590,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.


# 1590 27-May-1994 rgrimes

BSD 4.4 Lite Usr.bin Sources