trevor@trevan.UUCP (trevor) (11/26/88)
I have just upgraded to 2.4 and found that Bell Technologies XTC drivers version 2.6 cause PANICs. So I installed the Microport Drivers and they worked. Unfortunatly the manual pages were not included but I have now got them from the London office. My complaint is that the utilities are *VERY* crude and not user friendly. I have written some shell scripts to overcome this but I have one major problem. How can I position the tape at the nth archive or volume on the tape. The way sujested in the manual is to read each volume until the nth is reached. Unfortunatly if this is done with strm a carriage return must be entered at the end of each volume. This can become a little teadious if one has a large number of volumes on a tape. Any ideas? regards trevor