hi all,

We purchased two Straightline SL850 tape robots 5 years ago. (5 x AIT-1
+ 50 slots). It emulates a whole host of mainstream products but we
choose the EXB-10e. Our vendor gave us the CHS software for SUN Solaris
unix with the purchase, so that shell scripts (and AMANDA!) could manipulate
the library robot without the need for trillion dollar software. Time goes by
... machines come and go and now
I seem to be stuck. We never received the source code and I have been
back to the vendor requesting it. Alas it seems those partnerships from long ago

have lapsed and they can't give me the source code.

The problem I have is that all of my hosts are now pretty much running
the 64bit Solaris .... and the drivers are 32bit. All ultraSparc III chips
MUST run in 64 bit mode ... so I need the source to re-compile it.

Does anyone have the CHS source (I would not ask normally but my
vendor is unable to supply it). This is what I have:

windamere[115]% chs --version
chs: illegal option -- -
Unknown command
chs version 1.0
usage: chs [-f changername] command [-s slot] [-d drive] [-n label] [-l]
Commands:
        driver                             - Display driver information
        hardware                           - Display changer information
        init                               - Initialize changer unit
        inventory [-l]                     - List available media
        search    -n "search-str"          - Search media by name
        select    -s slot -d drive         - Move media from storage to drive
        deselect  [-s slot] -d drive       - Move media from drive to storage
        import    -s slot | -d drive       - Import media to slot or drive
        export    -s slot | -d drive       - Export media from slot or drive
        position  [-s slot | -d drive]     - Position transport element
        move      -s src -s dest           - Move media from slot to slot
        exchange  -s src -s dest [-s dest] - Exchange medium locations
        lock                               - Prevent media access/removal
        unlock                             - Allow media access/removal
        reset                              - Reset changer device


thanks

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