19 Apr
2001
19 Apr
'01
2:59 p.m.
To anyone who wants to know, I remembered the syntax and command to dup a
tape to a file and vice-versa on DG MV gear under AOS/VS II.
First, my first tape drive is named MTB0. Your's might be a different
name like MTC or something.
The Command is:
XEQ DISPLAY/NOLIST @mtb0:0 AOSBOOTLOADER.img
will dump the first tape 'file' of the unlabeled tape to the file
aosbootloader.img
Substitute @mtb0:1 and it will dump the second file etc.
The /NOLIST switch keeps DISPLAY from showing all the data to the terminal
before writing to tape. This saves TONS of time on a 19.2kbaud terminal
when you are moving 20mb of data...
What wonders a good nights sleep can do?
Regards,
Jeff
In <20010419061954.SZMO24660.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@Benchbox>, on
04/19/01
at 07:59 PM, THETechnoid(a)home.com said:
Dunno if any of you recall, but I found a nifty way of
duping tape data
under AOS/VS II on MV hardware last year.
Something like:
"Type/nodisplay @mtb0 filename"
The purpose is to binary duplicate the info on the tape
to a file on hard
disk indiscriminately in order to reverse the process and produce a copy
of the tape ( I have only one 9 track drive ).
My problem is that the system insists on displaying
every displayable
byte to the host terminal and beeping at the non-displayable bytes. I'd
like this not to happen but can't remember the secret, undocumented
syntax for this command.
Help/v type does not give me the info. Neither do any
of the other
manuals I have. Does anyone have a fix for me? I can't dup a 20mb 9
track that beeps all night long and in which destination I have no
confidence.
I ran across the correct syntax/commands some months
ago and just can't
remember what I'm supposed to enter to get this result. S@!T.
Your help is very much appreciated,
Jeff
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