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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
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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.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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