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Re: Tape drives and Sun UNIX [message #1871 is a reply to message #1870]

Tue, 22 March 1994 21:45

landsman
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In article <2mni0u$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..?
>
This doesn't exactly answer your question but Bill Thompson has written IDL
procedures that use the IOCTL function (so you need IDL V3.0 or later) to
emulate the intrinsic VMS IDL tape I/O procedures TAPWRT, TAPRD, REWIND,
SKIPF, etc. The procedures are available via anonymous FTP from
idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov in the pro/tape_io directory (see the README file
there).

I know that these procedures will work on our SparcStation running Sun 4.1.1.

Wayne Landsman landsman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov

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