SCSI Tape to TAP utility

[Dave G4UGM]

If you had a tape master file then typically that had the same dataset name on the master in and out....

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck
> Guzis
> Sent: 09 August 2015 19:13
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> Subject: Re: SCSI Tape to TAP utility
> 
> On 08/09/2015 10:45 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
> 
> > Seems dangerous to me: duplicate data set names on different tapes
> > would confuse it (plus, if the DSN is long, the entire DSN does not
> > actually appear in the tape label).  I worked with OS/360 and MVS in
> > my career and we never did anything like that with it.
> 
> So you'd trust your job to a 9-5 operator who really didn't care what the
> machine was doing to make tape assignments?
> 
> Wow.  Good thing that tapes have write-enable rings.
> 
> --Chuck