Cool! I've been avoiding implementing the tape driver for BESM-6 because it
had formatted tapes and in-place overwrite of individual records. I'll be
able to do it soon, then!

Thanks,
Leo

On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:24:25 -0400, Bob Supnik <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> Dave Bryan and I are trying to work out the kinks in the 'erase'
> function on the 940, which is needed to make the tape file system work.
> Dave has implemented precise in-place erase for records, but we'll need
> a precise erase for file marks too. And then the whole thing has to be
> tested.
>
> I'll keep you posted on progress.
>
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