Gilles wrote:
> There actually is a contributed library utility that will copy SLT's and/or STORE tapes to and from disc.
> 
> Following is an example:
> 
> :tcpy.priv.system
> TCPY   A.02.00   Hewlett Packard Technisches Zentrum Wien (WK)
> 


I'm not familiar with that version ... I'd like to look at it to see if someone finally 
wrote one as good as ours :)

With the possible exception of the above TCPY, I don't know of any tape copy utilities
that correctly handle STORE tapes created with the MAXTAPEBUF option.  That option can
result in records longer than the file system allows.  (Our tape reading/copying/converting
utilities bypass this limitation).  Our TapeDisk product comes with TapeTape, which copies 
from tape to tape, in addition to the tape->disk and disk->tape programs).  
Info at: http://www.allegro.com/?page_id=414 


>> Not being able to do this for SLT, FOS, and SUBSYS tapes, adds another item to my MPE wish-list. Today with all the various binary formats and disc imaging techniques, there should be a way to store these tape images to disc, rendering the ability to make a new tape when needed. I believe someone on the list had written some software to do this, don't recall who? 

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