In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Thus, the application needn't be concerned about whether we are getting
>close to EOM.  You get the best possible behavior whether the drive
>signals early EOM or not.

With "early warning", an archive program can write a table of contents 
to the end of tape.  Without, it can't because variable compression rates 
mean that it doesn't know tape size.

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