> 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.
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Rob van der Heij wrote: > 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." ... I believe I tried that, coding an asterisk, and that when TRACKWRITE discovered that the disk was not "fresh" it again refused to write over the evident prior content. Memory could be fading, Rob, so I'll have to re-check this. -- R;
