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In <1992Jul26.115817.27702@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes:
| 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.
| 
| 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?
| 
| I.e. could some kind sole please send me replacements  for fseek() and ftell()
| with such DAT tape drives, please?

The drive has the ability to do fast seeks, but fseek and ftell are
unlikely to work.  It may also be that the NeXT tape drive doesn't
provide this functionality.
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