>A job which is running STORE requests that the operator reply with the
>ldev of the tape drive.  The operator replies with the wrong drive, in
>our case
>
>     REPLY <pin>,7 >when it should be >     REPLY <pin>,8
>

This reminds me of the old joke: Doctor, doctor it hurts when I go like this
<<patient waives arms>>
and the doctor replies << NPI >> Don't go like that!

If you would use File TAPE;DEV=8 versus FILE TAPE;DEV=TAPE then the reply
would be a Y/N not
an LDEV number. Another, better method would to be to use labeled tapes for
backups. This would eliminate the reply altogether.

As for once the reply is made, all you can do is repeated ABORTIO commands.
This will usually cause the backup program to abort.

Mike Hornsby
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