Re: ontape and logical log questions

In <32640957.6748@crosskeys.com>, Mark Christmas <mchristmas@crosskeys.com> writes: >if it is, how do we detect when the tape is full - is there a message >that we could scan for? >-- >+-----------------------------------------+ >| Mark Christmas mchristmas@crosskeys.com >| CrossKeys Systems Corp www.crosskeys.com >| 350 Terry Fox Dr >| Kanata, ON, Canada K2K 2W5 >| Phone (613) 591-1600 Fax (613) 599-3626 >+-----------------------------------------+ Dunno, about ontape but we are at V5....and I wrote a BLAST telecommunications script that logs back onto the machine with a telnet session and invokes tbtape...on a stacker....the BLAST looks out for the various screen writes by tbtape that would indicate new tape needed, failure etc....and when it sees it, sends the appropriate command...thus it is that we can use tbtape (which is meant for human tending) with a 8mm tape stacker with dumb sequential robotics....and get our sleep while the stacker swaps tapes under the watchful eye and idrection of BLAST....