13 Jun
2015
13 Jun
'15
7:06 p.m.
Thanks! I'll look up all of those commands to understand them better.
^Y looks familiar. I think this is the second time I have learned about it. :)
On Jun 13, 2015, at 18:40, Jerry Weiss <jsw at
ieee.org> wrote:
If you are running backup and it is asking for additional tapes, then I believe you can
do the following
^Y
$spawn
$
$reply/enable=all
initialize additional tapes as needed (prior tape should have rewound?)
mount tape
$reply/to=MESSAGEID
$exit
$continue
Jerry Weiss WB9MRI
jsw at ieee.org
On Jun 13, 2015, at 8:04 PM, Mark J. Blair
<nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
Thanks! I will try that out.
>> On Jun 13, 2015, at 18:01, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
>> Thanks, I will read that. But how do I enter the reply command when the BACKUP
program is hogging the console? Is there a VMS equivalent to the way a task can be
suspended in UNIX with ^Z?
>
> I'm no expert, but I think you can sometimes do ^Y, and then CONTINUE,
> but only if you only execute built-in commands between the ^Y and the
> CONTINUE.