rdodds@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (12/02/88)
I have a number of questions that I hope someone out there can
help me with.
1. vt100 sr10. When telneting from the vt100 emulator at
SR10.0, there are a large number of spurious characters
introduced into the pad. Suppose I want to set my TERM
environment variable. When I type:
% setenv TERM vt100
I might see:
% stee nv TRERMv t100
...but the shell picks up the command correctly. Is this
fixed in SR10.1? It makes telnet from a vt100 window nearly
impossible. This problem only exists from the VT100 emulator
when telneting; any other means of telneting works just
fine.
2. Cartridge tapes. I have a user who needs to read formatted
catridge tapes on the Apollo. The tapes are format type
HCD-75 (according to 3M). The tape is formatted in 64k
1024 byte blocks (which makes sense, it is a 600 foot tape).
Because this is a formatted tape, no normal Apollo utility
(rwmt, rbak, even cptape) can read the tape; they fault out
with an error (i/o error on block 0; - read no data).
I thought that the "new open" Apollo, with openness and
extensible products could give me enough details about
their cartridge tape controller that I could solve my
problem, but the guy on the hotline told me no, Apollo
makes their own tape controller and they don't release
any information about it. Danford says they buy their tape
controllers from Apollo, and if Apollo cannot tell me, they
certainly can't do so either.
My question is, does anyone know of a peripheral streaming
tape drive for the Apollo that would allow me to read formatted
cartridge tapes, or a company that makes a tape controller
who could get me enough information about the details of
the controller that would allow a device driver to be written
to do this?
Thanks in advance for any help in this matter.
Leland Ray
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana
lray@civilgate.ce.uiuc.edu
(217-3) 333-3821dclemans.falcon@mntgfx.mentor.com (Dave Clemans) (12/06/88)
> 2. Cartridge tapes. I have a user who needs to read formatted > catridge tapes on the Apollo. The tapes are format type > HCD-75 (according to 3M). The tape is formatted in 64k > 1024 byte blocks (which makes sense, it is a 600 foot tape). > Because this is a formatted tape, no normal Apollo utility > (rwmt, rbak, even cptape) can read the tape; they fault out > with an error (i/o error on block 0; - read no data). My understanding is that Apollo's use QIC-24 formatted cartridge tapes. dgc