The Ftape Installation and Usage Guide
This chapter contains (more or less) detailed implementation nodes for ftape-4.03 and list the various changes the file system interface of the ftape driver had to endure while being pushed from version to version.
| Device description | Devices provided by ftape-4.03 |
| ftape-2x compatibility | Compatibility with ftape-2.x |
| ftape-3x compatibility | Compatibility with ftape-3.04d |
| ftape-402 compatibility | Compatibility with ftape-4.02 |
| File marks | `End Of File' marks with ftape-4.03 |
| Tape blocks | Recording fixed length data blocks |
| Compression | Builtin Compression |
| Ioctls | The ioctl interface to ftape |
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