Xenix '386 tape stuff...

William E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at steinmetz.ge.com
Tue Sep 27 05:45:50 AEST 1988


In article <35 at maxx.UUCP> tyager at maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager) writes:

| Now for the questions: 1) Is anyone using an Archive drive with a 20MHz 386
| system? 2) Are the operations I wish to perform difficult or impossible?
| 3) Is C function level support for tape operations provided? 4) Any 2.3
| users who can comment on their experience with tape operations?

  Everything you want to do works fine, but I have never tried C level
stuff writing in small block. I set my buffers to be 5k and write that
way. Stdout seems to be okay, so I wouldn't expect any trouble. All of
the interfaces work as expected.
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