Try labeled tapes...an unlabeled tape cannot span reels, a labeled can

Max & Gloria Buten <[log in to unmask]> wrote in article
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> We want to copy a 400 MB file to tape to send to an IBM system.
>
> On the first try, we used the default compression of the tape drive,
> but of course the IBM system couldn't read the tape.
>
> On the second try we got about 750 KB on the tape and then error 23 at
> the end of the tape.  Is this an indication that Fcopy won't copy a
> file to multiple tapes?  Or is there some other limitation in Fcopy?
>
> We could use the Subset function of Fcopy to break the file into
> single-tape pieces.  Is there another solution?
> Max Buten - Contract Programmer in Powerhouse - [log in to unmask]
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