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Good ol' Quiz or QTP should make you a good ANSI labelled tape. Worked
fine with Reel-to-Reel EOT. Don't know if behavior will be the same on a
DDS.
Original question follows:
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Trudeau, James Lhrl wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Well ummm...where to start?
>
> So we have a Turboimage database on the 3000 which needs one
> (several actually but let's keep it simple) of it's dataset's on the
> 9000. The output file created by the extract program on the 3000
> is 23GB. The program normally outputs a disc file but we're just
> a tad shy of that kind of free disc space, so I redirect it to a
> 120m DDSII tape. Well that, of course, works fine until it hit's
> EOT thereby notifying MPE that the disc file is full and promptly
> crashes. Bet you've never seen anything like that ;-).
>
> So I suppose I can change the disc-to-tape file equate and call it
> a labelled tape? (last time I worked in tape and labels was on
> MPE/V) This would create a file of multiple tapes but I am totally
> unclear as to what will happen when this file hits the 9000.
>
> The loader program on the 9000 is going to have to be changed and
> recompiled anyhow because of some blocking factors and such, but
> I have no idea of how to tell the program/Unix that the input is
> labelled. Only labels I've worked with were IBM OS/VS blah, blah.
>
> So, is there a simple way to move these files that I'm not aware of?
> FTP and modems are out. Gotta be tape.
>
> Jim (desperately seeking Susan (or Betty(or Carol))) Trudeau
>
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