On 8/31/07, Rick Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that TRACKWRITE is "careful". It won't step on a label > that it does not expect. If you want to blow away the target disk, > you'll need to format it outside of TRACKWRITE. I use CMS FORMAT.
That is really overkill. With trackwrite you formats the track as well. You need to specify * for the label, as the book says: "An asterisk to indicate that no label is present, e.g., a fresh temporary disk." If you want more excitement in life, a simple pipe like this will reveal the label (if any) pipe trackread 191 0 0 | trackdeblock | strfind x0000000003 | spec 13.6 | append literal * | var llb Rob