Always view the table of contents of an archive tape before and after modifying it. Each archive on the archive tape must be viewed individually. Place the write-enabled tape in the drive. For a QIC, push the tape in all the way, until it clicks into place, then close the drive door. Use the following Unix commands to rewind the tape, scan an archive, skip to the next archive, scan the next archive, etc., until all archives are read.
Ellipses are the screen output of the archive.
Once you encounter a read error, the tape has no more archives to scan. The read error is not an actual problem. Extracting may overwrite existing files, so we recommend that you extract your files within a scratch file. You must know the name of the archive you are extracting. The command isn't doing anything.