Re: ontape problem

Tamas Posa wrote: [SNIP] > Is there a way, to prevent informix "Shutting-Down" in case > you inserted wrong tape (this change of mode cannot be > permitted for our application) and run 'ontape -r'?. > Is there an other way, you determine the date of a backup > (except reading it hand-written on the tape-label)? Ontape -r to check an archive? REALLY dangerous if someone hits enter by mistake! Just use dd to read the tape into od -c or into a file and you can peruse the first few tape pages manually, it is mostly ASCII anyway, including the archive date/time. Art S. Kagel