Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/12/22:34:57
On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> > > > I'd love to be able to access a tape drive as a disk, do a DIR and you
> > > > until you see the file you want, then copy it out of the tape drive to
> > >
> > > Sure! Why not? Even though I don't have a tape unit, I can see
> > > that as a GREAT benifit to those that do.
>
> > I don't know.
> > Is it technically possible.
> > 'Coz I think that if it was technically possible, that the
> > tape-software-manufactunerds (hi hi :-) ) would've already done something
> > like that.
>
> Errr, it's not so much the fact that the TSM's haven't done something like
> that, it's just that perhaps I'm the first to voice the need to be able to
> do something like this out loud? The tape hardware isn't that complex,
> it's the driver which would have to be complex because it will be
> accessing the tape drive in real time instead of the backup/restore
> software handling the task. More than likely it'll have to be one of our
> RM/PM DLL drivers, one which doesn't get loaded until you access the tape
> drive as a virtual drive. It then gets loaded and runs the tape drive as
> though it was just a dir, hiding the complex nature of accessing the tape.
> You'd still have to wait for the driver to do it's work, tapes _are_ _not_
> instantaneous access, they are crawl access.
> > > If anyone wants to add to the wishlist, please drop me a line.
>
> To be able to run Lunix binaries under OpenDOS. =)
Lunix? Never heard of it. :o) Seriously though, what programs
would you like to run under OpenDOS? There probably is a port of
whatever program you want to run. If not, chances are that the
sources are available and could be ported.
TTYL
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