Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!psuvax1!ukma!rex!uflorida!bikini!jco From: jco@sparky.cis.ufl.edu (Dumpmaster John) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: How to "goto end of tape" for DDS ? Message-ID: Date: 5 Apr 91 01:35:44 GMT References: <1991Apr3.172902.26329@ugle.unit.no> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Organization: /cis/santa0/jco/.organization Lines: 32 In-reply-to: eilif@imm.unit.no's message of 3 Apr 91 17:29:02 GMT Which end of tape do you mean? Physical end? or the end of what you've writen so far? The first I'd say, why? the second use mt -t/dev/nonrewinding_dds_drive eom You want to use the do not rewind on close or else it will take it to the end and then rewind it for you (not normaly useful). eom is end of media (which is 2 end of tape marks). To get around between files you use fsf (forward step file) and bsf (back step file). [on evil SunOS machines they also have asf (absolute step file). So on high density tapes you have some chance of finding more than one file] While on the subject of busted stuff it's -t on HP-UX and -f on everything else (breaks my scripts) and status is not impelment (so it's hard to know where you are). Yea I know this isn't SunOS, but when you deal with tapes and multi-vendor arch, little things like at least making the option work the same and add some advanced features goes a long way to making things less painful than they all ready are. later jco -- "BSD the strongest Operating System avaible today without a prescription." John C. Orthoefer Internet: jco@smuggler.cis.ufl.edu University of Florida Floyd Mailing List: eclipse-request@reef.cis.ufl.edu CIS Department >>>>>>New Address<<<<<<-------------^^^^