agoe@ur-tut.UUCP (05/12/87)
I working on a small integrated BACKUP/TAPE Management Facility for our site
and I am yet to be able to find a way to extract a magnetic tape's volume
label for use in a DCL com file. If there is a lexical for this, I am really
at a loss. I would appreciate any suggstions.
A VAX type-version of UCC1 it may not be but it will at least be
better than logging the damn things in by hand! Thanks in advance.
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Karl Cialli
MCI International Inc. Dept. 433/875
2 International Drive Rye Brook, NY 10573
UUCP: {allegra, cmcl2, decvax, harvard, seismo}!rochester!ur-tut!agoe
===============================================================================tedcrane@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Ted Crane) (05/13/87)
In article <1318@ur-tut.UUCP> agoe@ur-tut.UUCP (Karl Cialli) writes: >I working on a small integrated BACKUP/TAPE Management Facility for our site >and I am yet to be able to find a way to extract a magnetic tape's volume >label for use in a DCL com file. I assume you don't mind physically mounting the tape on the drive! There is no lexical in the world that'll help you if the tape is in the rack! Seriously, now: $! $! First, mount the tape with over=id, so you don't need to know the $! label. Note that the second parameter is a space...this is just a $! placeholder so you can enter a third parameter, TAPE, which will $! be a convenient logical name for the tape drive. $! $ mount/nowrite/override=identification tape-device " " TAPE $! $! Now, you can get the volume label fairly easily: $! $ VOLUME_LABEL = f$getdvi(TAPE,"volnam") $! $! Dismount the tape, use nounload if you are going to reuse it immediately $! $ dismount/nounload TAPE This is based on some code I've used for disks...I haven't tried it on a tape for a long time, if ever, but it ought to work.