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Subject: Problems writing /FOREIGN tapes
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Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 18:33:34 EDT
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From: Kevin Carosso 

I'm having some really wierd problems trying to write a foreign tape.
I keep getting "Bad parameter value" from the QIO system service when
using the COPY command to copy a bunch of files onto a /FOREIGN magtape.
It has the default record and blocksize.  Some files work fine, others
do not.  I cannot see any difference in the files except that they all
have different max record lengths, and some are contiguous-best-try.  But,
there is nothing in their attributes that I can see that correlates with
the ones that write to the tape.  This is with VMS V4.1.  All the files
are standard text files...

Anyone know what the restrictions are on writing a /FOREIGN tape?  Why do
some of these files work and others not work?  I tried pulling a file into
EDT, writing it back out with no changes and copying it to the tape, but that
did not help.

	/Kevin Carosso           engvax!kvc @ CIT-VAX.ARPA