Not being a Unix wiz I may be barking up the wrong tree, but.................

I don't think SAS will have anything to do with it; you'll need some utility (or command), most likely one that came with your tape drive to do what you're after.

Note: let me qualify that: SAS has no Procs or utilities per se. It is theorectically possible for YOU to use SAS to create the HDR1 and HDR2 [header] records [i.e., "files"] for an IBM SL tape, ditto for the EOF records, THEN, you could (after resolving some other issues: see below) "write" everything to tape: the double tape marks, the HDR1 and HDR2 records; the data proper, the EOF record.

My sense if you could do this (i.e,. have complete control over the tape drive), then there surely is a utility around. Believe me: you DO NOT want to manually create your own IBM SL tape <g>.

This, of course, begs off on more pertinent questions such as "what kind* of data are you writing out? (e.g., SAS datasets or "raw" data; is "raw" ASCII or EBCDIC, record format, the other DCB specs, etc., etc.).

HTH

At 11:35 AM 5/3/99 -0500, Ross Bettinger wrote: >I am using SAS 6.12 on a Solaris 5.6 platform. I would like to write an >IBM standard-labelled tape to a 3480 or 3490-compatible cartridge tape >drive. > >Is there a SAS PROC to create the tape label and then upload the data? A >SAS macro? > >Can I do this if I create the tape label header info myself? > >Ross Bettinger

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