Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!msc From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Alex Whites solution to end of tape recognition in UNIX Message-ID: <912@qubix.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 17:37:13 EST Article-I.D.: qubix.912 Posted: Wed Mar 7 17:37:13 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 01:49:12 EST References: <1762@rlgvax.UUCP>, <7175@watmath.UUCP> <490@abnjh.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 14 >> hang vol_ser=123456 file=mytape mode=read_write density=1600 I have no objection to a hang command which requests an operator to mount a tape. But let's be sensible about the infor the operator needs. "vol_ser" smacks of big blue and doesn't really seem necessary. The density field is completely redundant. Any halfway decent tape drive automatically senses the density of a tape it is to read. The density you write at is determined (in Unix) by the device you write to. Some people must love typing. -- From the Tardis of Mark Callow msc@qubix.UUCP, decwrl!qubix!msc@Berkeley.ARPA ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!msc, ...{ittvax,amd70}!qubix!msc