Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!mordor!styx!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!UORDB2.BITNET!JCOV
From: JCOV@UORDB2.BITNET
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: ds names on tape
Message-ID: <8612310024.AA01120@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Fri, 26-Dec-86 10:52:00 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8612310024.AA01120
Posted: Fri Dec 26 10:52:00 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Dec-86 00:44:22 EST
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 39
Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa

>Please take a look at the little guide to disk and tape that comes in
>the VMS documentation set.  It goes into the details more than I will.
>
>  (1) VMS quotes the filenames on tape for names that do not follow the
>VMS standard file naming convention.  Most often quoted are names w/o a
>period or with more than one period in them.  ANSI names can have spaces
>as well and will be quoted
>
>  (2) When you use COPY MFA0:*.* [your-dir-here], the COPY program
>blindly tries to use the filename on tape (the one that was quoted) to
>create the file on disk.  RMS naturally gets mad.  I recommend doing
>something like DIR MFA0:*.*/OUT=XXX.COM, and editing XXX.COM until each
>line looks something like COPY MFA0:"tape name" VMS_NAME.  and then
>executing the command file.
>
>  (3) About getting the tape drive confused, I have no idea what caused
>that.  The DISMOUNT command should always work to rewind the tape.  Use
>DISM/NOUNLOAD to rewind w/o the unload and MOUNT to try again.  I've
>been mad at DEC for a long time with SET MAGTAPE/REWIND's restriction of
>working with foreign mounted tapes only.  There was a DECUS program a
>while back that talked to the ACP to do a rewind too.
>
>  --Mark 


   Well, I think there is something else going on because
some of the quoted names looked perfectly normal to me
-- imparticular the one that crapped out.


   Also, it wasn't the tape drive I couldn't use after the
error on output it was the directory where I wanted
to put the output files.


   Any bright ideas would be appreciated?


         John