1/2" tape cleaners?

[John Foust]

At 03:41 PM 10/24/2004, Doc Shipley wrote:
>  It's amazing how much faster a DLT4000 runs when you set the blocksize to 0 (variable - allows the tape drive to set it and the app to override) instead of 512 bytes.  :)

Really?  Why? Is that true on my DLT 35/70s?

At 03:11 PM 10/24/2004, der Mouse wrote:
>My own favourite is copytape, which works well with tape drives that
>fit the Unix model of stream-of-tape-blocks. 

Ah, yes, that's the util I was thinking of.

If I did around, I can find the 'tar' and 'mt' for ASPI under DOS
that I used for years, that worked reasonably well.

- John