RE: TEXT file doubt

Tom, 

Just to be clear :-) - it was NOT an issue of connecting the 7208. That had
been done and it worked on BOTH systems. And as I stated, since the tapes
were radically different in density (and the 7208 documentation said to ONLY
use that higher density media in it) I had not considered that it might
actually read it OK, not damage it, etc.

So I really DID try to figure this out on my own but sometimes you just
don't see the forest for the trees :-)

Chuck

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Subject: RE: TEXT file doubt

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   8. RE: TEXT file doubt (michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
>My post wasn't sarcastic. If folks on this list don't want to answer
>newbie questions, maybe we can have another list. If we can't, we can't.

Where it gets difficult is determining which questions are 'newbie' and
which aren't. For example, there might be a significant number of
programmers out there who have no clear idea what [FMTDTA] is meant to be.
It sure doesn't bring to mind the concept of "sort" right off the bat and it
certainly isn't considered current technology regardless of how well it
works. You _almost_ have to be a dinosaur just to know it exists.

OTOH, when a tape conversion question can essentially be answered with "Did
you try connecting the 7208 and see if it works directly?", nobody thinks in
terms of "Duh! That's so obvious."

Which of the two questions ought to be relegated to a new list? And once a
new list exists, will it then be polite to say "Off topic! Get thee to
Midrange_Newbie!" rather than answer?

Tom Liotta

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