Jim writes:

> >On a related subject, there use to be a CSL program called ONLINE that would
> >re-load unloaded tapes mounted on a DAT drive.  When we upgraded to 5.0 we
> >lost this great utility.  Anybody out there doing this on 5.0 or greater?
>
> I wrote an ONLINE utility myself (it uses the HPDEVCONTROL intrinsic) that
> still works under 5.5.  If you want it, I can e-mail you the source (85 lines
> of COBOL).

I forgot to mention that the Allegro ONLINE utility
   http://www.allegro.com/software
or
   http://www.allegro.com/software/stuff/ONLINE.LZW

puts the tape online *and* waits for automatic volume recognition to
finish.  If you don't want the AVR part, grab the non-privileged
version (ONLINENP.LZW).

BTW, if writing an ONLINE program, note that some versions of MPE/iX
had an incorrect definition of HPDEVCONTROL in the intrinsics file,
and that some (all?) versions of HPDEVCONTROL have various bugs that
can result in odd results.

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Stan Sieler                                          [log in to unmask]
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