Hello Jonathan

Thanks.   I'm sure it'll be a while before I grep and awk my way into
satisfaction but every bit helps.

Regards,
John I Wang
Sr. Systems Engineer
Steverson Information Professionals

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bperror -media contains info about what errors occurred on what tape
drives.  You just need to filter out lots of harmless lines about tape
media expiring.  I find the output most readable with the -L option,
which gives a verbose form of output.

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Jonathan Meyer
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UNIX Systems Administrator
Paramtric Technology Corporation
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