RE: TAP Statistics

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

We use tape CARTRIDGES not a reel.  I believe there is a retentioning that 
goes on but I guess if I change the SAVE to use *LEAVE & not the *REWIND 
default, your suggestion might help me.  Thanks.

I use that on cartons of paper ... it so happens that our paper is 27 
centimeters deep & 2700 sheets of paper to a carton, so I saw the 
relationship of 100 sheets to the centimeter, but when I was looking at paper 
supply in inches, I never saw it.

From:   richardjackson@richardjackson.net (Richard Jackson)

Al, can you tell how many feet of tape are on a reel?  The other part is
pretty easy.

Richard Jackson
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http://www.richardjacksonltd.com
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-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of MacWheel99@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 11:52 AM
Subject: TAP Statistics

We use some tapes for end fiscal off load random volumes of old traffic
off_line, in which it is not predictable what the size of the old files will
be ... example our ERP keeps inventory transactions that are X months old &
the items with no recent activity keeps last Y transactions, so with steady
business the off loading is even volumes of transactions, but with
fluctuating customer base, the off-loads can vary greatly.

We would like to maximize what goes on one tape without the hassle of
multi-volume.

Is there an easy way in DSPTAP DMPTAP etc. to total up sizes of files there
& get a human intelligible figure like .... 30 files totalling 2 Gig ... 1/2
gig left on this tape?

I find myself at adding machine multiplying # records times byte sectors to
get total consumption of each file, then adding up each total to get total
tape consumed.  There's gotta be a better way.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
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