[comp.sys.amiga] VLT Scripts and 8mm Tape backup

boily@phy.ulaval.ca (Edouard Boily) (08/15/90)

	Hi,

	I want to know two(+1) things.

   1.   Is  it  possible  to  connect an 8mm cassette backup device
	(like  Exabyte  or  the  Cybernetics-8200) on an Amiga?  By
	'connect', I mean 'use'.  Which kind of driver create?  Are
	the mentionned beasts SCSI?


   2.1  I  am  using the newest version of VLT (4.824).  In the doc
	that  come  with  it, we can see that there is a field name
	'BEEPF'  meaning  BeebFuntion  which  set the command to be
	executed  when the VLT bell should be sounded.  Can someone
	tell  me  the  syntax  to  use  to  set  this  field in the
	'vlt.init' file?  I tried

		BEEPF	~rx "address 'PingServer' BEEP"

	It  didn't  work.   I  tried  putting  the argument between
	quotes, no more success.  Any idea?

   2.2  Always with VLT, I wrote an ARexx script where the following
	variable is defined:

		sendstring1 = 'sunmef"' || login || ' ' || password
		sendstring1 = sendstring1 || '"::astro2:[' || login
		sendstring1 = sendstring1  || ']' || file2post ||cr
		/*sendstring1 = '"' || sendstring1 || '"'*/

	I try to send this variabbe to the host VAX via the command

		Address VLT
		SEND sendstring2

	But  the VAX receives only the first words of the variable.
	Removing the comments doesn't help.  Any more ideas.


					Edouard Boily
					Phys. Dept.
					Laval Univ.
					Quebec, CANADA