Re: DSPTAP takes too long

I don't have much to add to what others have said. Just wanted to point out 
that even if APIs are available, they probably wouldn't help much with speed. 
The speed of physical tape operations will likely be the big limiter here. Your 
best bet is to work on the logical design of your process. Initializing your 
tapes with unique identifiers (maybe nothing more than MONDAY, TUESDAY, etc.) 
is a big step in this.

Tom Liotta

On Mon, 24 September 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.

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Tom Liotta
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