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

[P. Sture]

In article <Bsn1WPrTcao1 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

>    Do you know how many files are on the tape, prior to the partial
>    file?  If not you can mount the tape as a labeled tape and use
>    DIRECTORY to count the files, but ask for enough directory
>    information to force an output line for each file.  You'll have to
>    abort the operation when the tape drive reads the EOV mark.
> 
>    Then mount the tape /foreign.  Use "set magtape/skip=file:x" where
>    x is 3 times the number of backup save sets you want to keep.  Then
>    "set magtape/end_of_file" twice.
> 
>    That will make the tape logically end after the last full saveset.

Provided you know the name of the last full saveset, a BACKUP/LIST of 
that saveset will also position the tape where you want it.

-- 
Paul Sture