On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> One thing still up in the air (to me anyway) is final tape selection
> from within the tapelist and physical tape changer.  Your description
> gets to which tapes are "eligible" to be selected, but not which tape
> (or runtape number of tapes) among that set is ultimately chosen.

Very simple: the tape in the currently loaded slot.
And if that one is not eligible, Amanda skips to the next slot, until she finds
an eligible tape.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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