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CHKTAP is much faster than DSPTAP. Dan Rasch - because if the human species concentrated on the really important things in life, there would be a shortage of fishing poles! IBM Certified twice........ but never noticed. On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Jim Langston wrote: > I've been given the task to write something to start checking the tape in > our tape drive around 7:00 in the morning and start sending a message every > hour until the tape is changed. > > Not a difficult task, it would seem, simply do a DSPTAP, get a file > date/time or tape date/time and save the value, and compare every hour until > it changes. > > I do a DSPTAP to an outfile, and it takes quite a long time to complete > (over half hour). I tried to see if I can just get the first label, but > with outfile it starts at the label number you specify. > > So... my question is, are there any tap APIs I could use that could perhaps > be faster? Just allow me to grab the beginning tape information as that's > all I need. > > Thanks in advance, > > Jim Langston > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > >
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