Re: Assigning ontape output to disk

Thanks to all who responded with answers to even more than I asked. The element I was failing was created the disk file before trying to assign the file name to the "Tape Device" entry. Thanks again Con Woodall Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital cwoodall@vth.colostate.edu 970-491-1244 On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, alp koray tasdemir wrote: > > > > How do you tell the online engine to direct archives written > > with ontape to a disk file? Modifications through onmonitor > > or the onconfig file still leave the engine demanding tape behavior: > > mount messages, etc. > > Once you create an empty file with correct permissions ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > on the file system; you may change your archive tape > parameters via onmonitor. Ontape will still ask to mount > the tape (which is already mounted in this case). You simply > need to press enter and your empty file will start to fill. > Also it will ask to change the tape when your > tape size value is smaller than your archive size. > In this case you need to copy the file and then empty it. > But if you want these operations to happen automatically; > you may write an input file which you would redirect it > into ontape when executing (preferably within a script to > handle complicated actions) or deal with Onarchive. > Hope this helps. > > Alp K. Tasdemir > >