Jeff Woods writes:
>>:FILE T;DEV=TAPE;REC=-276,10,F,ASCII
>>:FCOPY FROM=W2TAPE.PUB.TPRL;TO=*T
>
>I realize it's a nit I'm picking here, but I *always* use "VERIFY" on any
>FCOPY to tape that I might want to be able to read again later.  However,
I
>doubt that would have changed the outcome you received.

Oh, is VERIFY an option of FCOPY?  Something like FCOPY .... ;VERIFY? 
I've never heard of it.  The FCOPY I used is what the vendor has in 
their instructions.  Not an excuse, now that I know about VERIFY, 
I'll probably use it from now on.

>Presuming that your vendor's drive (which needs to read the tape, of
>course) is a DDS-1 drive, you will need to send them a 90m or shorter tape
>without hardware data compression enabled, as you indicated.  If
everything
>works as they are designed, that should be sufficient to provide
>compatibility.

Yeah, I did get it to work with a genuine HP 90M tape, although the 60M 
tape was MRS.

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