On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:12:38AM -0400, James Tison wrote: > You just can't get those tape labels that MVS > seems to thrive on.
Well, actually you can. You need a copy of a handy little gadget called 'ansitape'. You can get a copy from: http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:hxS4jEBEZfsJ:gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume8/ansitape/+ansitape&hl=en ansitape produces both ANSI and IBM standard labels. Unlabeled tapes are bad ju-ju. > If you're reading this tape on VM/CMS, just let CMS TAPE do its thing > -- it works tapemark-to-tapemark, just like Unix tape processing does, > and couldn't care less about labels. Actually, you want to use FILEDEF/MOVEFILE for this. TAPE DUMP/TAPE LOAD expect a certain format for the data. FILEDEF and MOVEFILE do OS simulation, which gives you label processing just like that other OS...8-) -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
