diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
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+mt-st-0.5b.tar.gz
diff --git a/mt-st.spec b/mt-st.spec
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+Summary: Install mt-st if you need a tool to control tape drives.
+Name: mt-st
+Version: 0.5b
+Release: 10
+Copyright: BSD
+Group: Applications/System
+Source: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/backup/mt-st-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0: mt-st-buildroot.patch
+Patch1: mt-st-0.5b-datcomp.patch
+Patch2: mt-st-0.5b-jbj.patch
+BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
+
+%description
+The mt-st package contains the mt and st tape drive management
+programs. Mt (for magnetic tape drives) and st (for SCSI tape devices)
+can control rewinding, ejecting, skipping files and blocks and more.
+
+Install mt-st if you need a tool to  manage tape drives.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+%patch0 -p1 -b .buildroot
+%patch1 -p1 -b .datcomp
+%patch2 -p1 -b .jbj
+
+%build
+make CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -Wall" MANDIR=%{_mandir}
+
+%install
+rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
+mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/{bin,sbin}
+mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_mandir}/man{1,8}
+
+make install MANDIR=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_mandir}
+
+%clean
+rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%doc COPYING README README.stinit mt-st-0.5b.lsm stinit.def.examples
+/bin/mt
+/sbin/stinit
+%{_mandir}/man[18]/*
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Aug 17 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
+- summaries from specspo.
+
+* Wed Jul 12 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com>
+- automatic rebuild
+
+* Wed Jun 14 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
+- FHS packaging.
+
+* Sat Apr 15 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
+- permit leading whitespace in config file.
+- cortrect spelling error.
+
+* Mon Feb  7 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
+- handle compressed manpages
+
+* Fri Jan 14 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
+- rebuild for Red Hat 6.2.
+
+* Sun Sep  5 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
+- enable "datcompression" command (#3654).
+
+* Sun Mar 21 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> 
+- auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 3)
+
+* Wed Feb 10 1999 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
+- upgrade to .5b, which fixes some cmd. line arg issues (bugzilla #18)
+
+* Thu Jul 23 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
+- package for 5.2.
+
+* Sun Jul 19 1998 Andrea Borgia <borgia@cs.unibo.it>
+- updated to version 0.5
+- removed the touch to force the build: no binaries are included!
+- added to the docs: README.stinit, stinit.def.examples
+- made buildroot capable
+
+* Mon Apr 27 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>
+- translations modified for de, fr, tr
+
+* Mon Oct 20 1997 Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
+- spec file cleanups
+
+* Thu Jun 19 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
+- built against glibc
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+557d47de8e86e786ed0c57141fc45afd  mt-st-0.5b.tar.gz