Jon LaBadie said:
> So, GH's tummy ache happens after you copied from tape to holding
> disk, while rewriting.  Now you've lost ?everything?, the precious
> tape of yesterday and all previous days as well as todays stuff.

True, but you're always going to face that risk anyway if you want
to do an "append to tape" setup. At least if you write out to tape
doing a "simulated append" your exposure to a "tummy ache" is
lessened.

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Kurt Yoder
Sport & Health network administrator