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 _at_mtb0:0 AOSBOOTLOADER.img
will dump the first tape 'file' of the unlabeled tape to the file
aosbootloader.img
Substitute _at_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_at_Benchbox>, on
04/19/01
at 07:59 PM, THETechnoid_at_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 _at_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_at_!T.
>Your help is very much appreciated,
>Jeff
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