tape eating

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Day before yesterday the guy who sits next to me was loading an open reel
tape on one of the "pizza oven" type drives where you slide the tape in
horizontally and everything happens behind closed doors.  There was either a
problem with the drive, or the tape was defective.  The tape came loose from
its reel and ended up on the takeup reel.  We called IBM and someone came
out and removed the tape from the drive.

The odd thing (?) was that when the drive was unable to rewind and unload
the tape, there was no error message.  It was a cpyfrmtap with the end of
tape option *unload.  Is it normal for this not to generate an error
message?  

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The above is my personal opinion and is not intended to represent good
programming practice or the product of a sound mind.

Joel Fritz 
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