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From: kinsell@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Dave Kinsell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Reading past end-of-tape mark on cartridge tape?
Message-ID: <17330014@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 90 19:27:21 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO
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>                                           . . . but I just can't
>figure out how to get tcio to move past the end-of-tape mark (or
>to write my own program to do the copy, which is a perfectly
>fine alternative).

The tape is randomly accessable, with a 1K logical block size.  I don't
know why you couldn't just start doing reads from a C program at the block
following the eot mark.

Dave Kinsell