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- From: kaushikc@microsoft.com (Kaushik Choudhury)
- Subject: Re: Opening Tape0 from C
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.033029.23503@microsoft.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 03:30:29 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Nov17.194048.20923@unislc.uucp>
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- In article <1992Nov17.194048.20923@unislc.uucp> edge@unislc.uucp (Brian Edginton) writes:
- >
- >Has anyone discovered a method of accessing the tape drive
- >from anywhere other than the backup program? I have searched
- >most of the documentation and tried various combinations of
- >\Devices\Tape0, etc. to no avail. There are several functions
- >that allow determination of tape type, media type, etc. but
- >all require that a fd be used. I would assume that fd is the
- >result of an open -- but I cannot discover what I need to
- >open.
- >
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- Use "\\.\TAPE0", if you are using CreateFile to get the device handle.
- Open it with sharemode = 0.
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