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