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- Dear CDU user,
-
- I you like the concept of CDZ (catalog tapes into a CATDISK compatible
- database) then watch the next text to earn a free key for CDU and MTA
- (the major archive conversion program) ! If you did like the CDZ idea
- but your tape-drive is not supported and/or your software release is
- not supported you should also continue to read.
-
- Compatibility
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- If your tape-software is not supported by CDZ or you have an older or
- newer version of the CMS Jumbo software (other than 3.03) or you have a
- tape-drive with different software, you could consider to contact me by
- writing a message to 2:281/904.5. In any case you must consider the
- following before contacting me:
-
- - Is your software able to run in batch-mode (e.g. with no or a minimal
- number of key-strokes). If not, I can not support the software. CDZ
- has to call the software to obtain the information from the
- tape-drive and the tape;
-
- - Does your software write to standard output (e.g. when you run the
- software like this, 'software.exe /commands >test' then, does the
- software write the information to the file test ? If not, no support
- can be included because CDZ needs to read the output from the tape
- software;
-
- If these conditions are met, you can contact me, and we can try to find
- a way to support your software/tape-drive. For CMS drives, I need the
- equivalents for TAPE SEARCH /S /P and TAPE SEARCH \*.* /S /P /V=1 (it
- this tells you something).
-
-
- Free keys ???
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- All over the place, there is NO information at all about the QIC-40 and
- QIC-80 interface (in combination with the QIC-117 interface). I need
- some (or all) of the information to try to write a tape-interface
- myself without the need for secondary programs (like CMS's TAPE.EXE and
- so on).
-
- If this information is public or can be obtained and you have access to
- such information (we don't have much info over here in Holland), please
- contact me. If the information is of interest to me, I am wiling to
- swap the information for a free key for CDU and MTA (non-commercial).
- If you happen to know where to obtain the information, but you don't
- have public access to it, I am still interested. In that case I need
- the address to contact and (if possible) the price. If this turns out
- to be correct information, the same offer goes.
-
- Better still. If you have knowledge of any commercial routine (pascal)
- that can access the tape-drive (CMS/Jumbo preferred), I would like to
- share this information so I can write to the vendor for information.
- And when you have shareware versions of such software (TPU files and/or
- source-code) I would be very happy. In these both cases the same offer
- goes (free keys for CDU and MTA).
-
- All related information from the Colorado BBS (USA) is available over
- here, so you can skip the obvious files like the 'tip' file on the QIC
- standards and so on....
-
- Many thanks in advance,
-
- Robert W. van Hoeven
- DISP
-