Accessing a VAX tape drive from a S

kai at uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu kai at uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
Fri Sep 9 09:16:00 AEST 1988


>/* Written  7:07 am  Sep  7, 1988 by roy at phri.UUCP in uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.wizards */
>	The kernel has no concept of blocking factor. 

You're right, I'm wrong.  Every once in a while part of my brain reverts to
my old IBM MVS days, where device selection and file blocking is controlled
external to the actual program in the JCL.

Patrick Wolfe  (pwolfe at kai.com,  kailand!pwolfe)



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