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Re: TAR compatible tapes from PC SCSI tape drive

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From: Alan R. Holbrook
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:59
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I use ctctrl.exe and tar.exe with a 60 meg Viper and an Adaptec 1522
for the same purposes, namely moving files back and forth from my
workstation at work to my PC at home.  The only annoyance I've had
with it is that setting the TAPEID environment variable in config.sys
to any other SCSI id other than 2 has no effect.  This is because the C
function used to read the variable gets it from the local environment,
not the master.

I'd really like to be able to assign an address other than 2 to my tape
drive.  Does anyone have a makefile for TurboC 2.0, or any other
solution?

Thanks,
Alan Holbrook
holbrook@apollo.hp.com
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From: holbrook@apollo.HP.COM (Alan R. Holbrook)
Subject: Re: TAR compatible tapes from PC SCSI tape drive
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