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Subject: re: ds names on tape
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Date: Tue, 23-Dec-86 20:02:00 EST
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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