Re: 8 MM ==> 9 Track

[Dave Shaw <dshaw1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Al Barsa Jr <barsa2@ibm.net>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: 8 MM ==> 9 Track


>At 06:34 PM 6/22/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Larry Bolhuis wrote:
>>>
>>> Rick,
>>>
>>>   DUPTAP is part of OS/400.  TAATOOLS has a DUPTAPIN and DUPTAPOUT for
>>> duplicating tapes with only one drive. It stores the data from tape in a
>>> DB file during DUPTAPIN and uses that for the DUPTAPOUT part.
>>
>>Really!??
>>
>>Didn't it used to be a tool?  I'm almost sure that I had to build the
>>command to use it, many, many years ago.
>
>DUPSAVTAP was a TAA Tool (I think).  Possibly it was only on the
System/38????


Al,

You're correct, DUPSAVTAP was a TAA Tool.  It was in the OS/400 V1R2 release
of the tools, because I distinctly remember creating it on our /400 when we
got it, then moving the source to our /38 and creating it there as well.  It
made our /38 to /400 migration MUCH easier.  I don't remember what release
DUPTAP was added to OS/400, but that was when Jim discontinued DUPSAVTAP.
That was about the same time that the pre-compiled PL/I programs for
DUPTAPIN/DUPTAPOUT appeared, so that that tool actually became usable by us
unwashed folk with no PL/I compiler.

Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC (just down the road from BMW -
Bubba Makes Wheels :)
The opinions expressed may not be my employer's unless I'm sufficiently
persuasive...


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