>hi,
>
>i got to get my 3570 a bar-code reader, but in the meantime, what is
the
>neatest way to label a single tape.


I haven't found a real elegant way to do it.  You can use tapeutil to
move the tape from the port to the drive, then run dsmlabel to label
it, then use tapeutil to move the tape back to the port.
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