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- From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
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- Subject: WangDAT: How to fseek() ?
- Keywords: cron
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.115817.27702@mic.ucla.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 18:58:16 GMT
- Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
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- I would like to write a few programs to lay out our large databases onto a DAT
- tape. Unfortunately, I lack all expertise with tape drives, and my Wang
- manual is less than explicit.
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- I understand how to use devices (/dev/rxt0, /dev/nrxt0) to read and write data
- byte by byte and file by file. What I really would like, though, is the
- additional ability to keep an index on disk, and do a fast fseek() that
- employs the WangDATs fast seek facilities. How would I do this in a C program?
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- I.e. could some kind sole please send me replacements for fseek() and ftell()
- with such DAT tape drives, please?
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- Thanks for any information.
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- /ivo welch
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- PS: Has anyone used SafetyNet? It got a rave review, but my efforts to contact
- the author has been unsuccessful.
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