Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Xenix '386 tape stuff... Keywords: ol, dee-doo dah day. Message-ID: <12241@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 26 Sep 88 19:45:50 GMT References: <35@maxx.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 15 In article <35@maxx.UUCP> tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager) writes: | Now for the questions: 1) Is anyone using an Archive drive with a 20MHz 386 | system? 2) Are the operations I wish to perform difficult or impossible? | 3) Is C function level support for tape operations provided? 4) Any 2.3 | users who can comment on their experience with tape operations? Everything you want to do works fine, but I have never tried C level stuff writing in small block. I set my buffers to be 5k and write that way. Stdout seems to be okay, so I wouldn't expect any trouble. All of the interfaces work as expected. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me