if it's a UNIX media server that owns the tape, you could read the 
header directly:

dd if=/dev/rmt/0cbn of=/tmp/header bs=1024 count=1
cat /tmp/header  (or cat /tmp/header | od -c)

hth
rob


At 8:29 AM -0500 3/15/02, Williams, Kris wrote:
>Does anyone know how to get the tape name of a current tape in a drive? I know
>VMOPRCMD does this, but I want to know if there is any other way.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kris
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