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Re: Tape drives and Sun UNIX [message #1865 is a reply to message #1857]

Wed, 23 March 1994 07:49

olsen
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Registered: March 1994

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In article 72u@paperboy.gsfc.nasa.gov, dug@aol7.wff.nasa.gov (Doug Vandemark 2038) writes:
>
> An Idl I/O question:
> Is it possible to read data from a tape device
> under the SUN 4.1.1 OS (UNIX) by using standard
> IDL IO functions open,read etc..?
>
I've done it on my sgi - just treated '/dev/tape' as a fileneame,
and had no problem doing the following:
openw, 2, 'filename'
printf, 2, .....
close, 2

openr, 2, 'filename'
readf,2, .....
close, 2

this was with the built in DAT drive - i have not tried the sun cartridge tape

rc olsen

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		Re: Tape drives and Sun UNIX By: knipp on Thu, 24 March 1994 00:19
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		Re: Tape drives and Sun UNIX By: knipp on Wed, 23 March 1994 00:53
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