Mark Barnes, > Christopher: > > Thanks for answering. I followed your advice and used mknod to create > ht0, but I still get this response from an mt command: > > mt: dev/ht0: No such device Would I be wrong if I guessed that you wrote mt -f dev/ht0 status instead of mt -f /dev/ht0 status ? -- regards, Christopher Pharo Glæserud