elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce) (07/09/90)
I have large database of fingerprint images to test a fingerprint comparison algorithms. However the disk space is now needed for something else. I can save all the images to an Exabyte tape. If I need to access them again it will be for an "offline" trial. The images will be used sequentially so to avoid reading them onto disk can I access the tape device from a program ? If so can I read the filename and then the data ? Henry Bruce