On Wed March 12 2003 09:16, Eric Sproul wrote:
>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?

I'd have a strong tendency to believe that report until proven 
otherwise.  And if thats the case, we would like to know about it 
pronto so we can advise the next user of that gotcha.

>> 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

Chuckle, thats a good one.  I suspect even Jon is chuckling as he 
reads this.

>Sorry Jon!
>
>Eric

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