Thanks! I'll look up all of those commands to understand them better. ^Y looks familiar. I think this is the second time I have learned about it. :)
> On Jun 13, 2015, at 18:40, Jerry Weiss <j...@ieee.org> wrote: > > If you are running backup and it is asking for additional tapes, then I > believe you can do the following > > ^Y > $spawn > $ > $reply/enable=all > > initialize additional tapes as needed (prior tape should have rewound…) > mount tape > > $reply/to=MESSAGEID > $exit > $continue > > > > Jerry Weiss WB9MRI > j...@ieee.org > > > >> On Jun 13, 2015, at 8:04 PM, Mark J. Blair <n...@nf6x.net> wrote: >> >> Thanks! I will try that out. >> >>>> On Jun 13, 2015, at 18:01, Glen Slick <glen.sl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Mark J. Blair <n...@nf6x.net> wrote: >>>> Thanks, I will read that. But how do I enter the reply command when the >>>> BACKUP program is hogging the console? Is there a VMS equivalent to the >>>> way a task can be suspended in UNIX with ^Z? >>> >>> I'm no expert, but I think you can sometimes do ^Y, and then CONTINUE, >>> but only if you only execute built-in commands between the ^Y and the >>> CONTINUE. >