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. > > --MarkWell, 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