[Info-vax] Delete a file from a tape?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <0ac8f017-2a96-4f44-a1e6-3980128c450e at y21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, sapienzaf <sapienza at noesys.com> writes:
> 
> You can't delete a file on tape.  You can overwrite it.
> 
> After you $MOUNT /FOREIGN the tape drive, issue a $SET MAGTAPE/
> SKIP=3D2.  That will position the tape after the end of the second
> (good) saveset.
> 

   If SKIP=3D2 is MIME for skip=2, it won't work.  You need to
   tell set magtape whether to skip files or records, and there's more
   than one physical file per backup saveset, just like ANSI/ASCII
   labeled tapes.