On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 14:39, Gene Heskett wrote: > Two other points come up here, Eric. > > 1. When a tape is inserted in most modern drives, the "tape > recognition cycle" will discover that this tape has been compressed > previously, and will turn the compression back on regardless of > your wishes.
Sounds good, so if I insert a tape that I *suspect* was written compressed, but I check tapeinfo and it says the drive is still in uncompressed mode, then I know that tape is OK, right? > 2: Jon's name isn't John. :-) Whoops! My bad. I have a friend by the same name, and he is famous for saying "J-O-N. I'm not a commode". ;-P Sorry Jon! Eric
