Re: despair

On 09/13/07 23:26, AEF wrote:
On Sep 13, 6:19 pm, "David P. Murphy" <dpm_goo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Real code at the beginning of the "daily backup" batch job:

$ ON ERROR THEN CONTINUE
$ ALLOCATE 'tape_drive'
$ INIT 'tape_drive' 'label'
$ BACKUP/IMAGE/REWIND/'quals' -
'disk' -
'tape_drive'DAILY.BCK/SAVE

I have lost what little faith in humanity remained in me.

ok
dpm


My questions:

Is the same tape in the drive every day?

Are there any more BACKUP commands in the rest of the procedure?

Does it matter? Defensive programming says you defend against
hardware glitches other people's mistakes.

--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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