Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!HI-MULTICS.ARPA!MHJohnson From: MHJohnson@HI-MULTICS.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: re: ds names on tape Message-ID: <861224010202.517198@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> Date: Tue, 23-Dec-86 20:02:00 EST Article-I.D.: HI-MULTI.861224010202.517198 Posted: Tue Dec 23 20:02:00 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 24-Dec-86 20:37:06 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 23 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