On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Paul Yeatman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thus the first file on the second tape, "file number=0".

Tape file numbers are one-based, because they reflect the number of
filemarks that precede the file data, and the tape always begins with
a tape header and a filemark:

tape header
FILEMARK
first data file
FILEMARK
second data file
...

Dustin

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