I think you're messing around with the "Keep It Simple Stupid"
principle. An ipleable utility would require a 2nd tape drive at a D/R
site. To avoid seeing the ipl error, you're going to have to ipl from a
different address and then hope that you're FSF'ing the correct number of
files/tape marks. Then you change the ipl address and find that you
haven't hit the DDR, or whatever, program, so you have to rewind the FSFIPL
tape to ipl it again and take a guess as to whether you should have FSF'd
the DDR tape more or less files.
Jim
At 10:10 AM 6/9/2006, you wrote:
I know you can do that as a crude FSF file, but you can't BSF without=20
CMS. A CP command to FSF would be much faster and cleaner than multiple=20=
IPL's.
CP already provides REWIND, so a command to do FSF and BSF isn't much of =
a=20
stretch.
Maybe I'll write an IPL'able utility that will issue FSF and BSF commands=
=20
to a tape drive. I'll IPL that whenever I need to re-position my main=20=
tape drive. <g>
Brian Nielsen
Jim Bohnsack
Cornell Univ.
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