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Tape Labeling Scheme

The following tape labeling scheme has been adapted:
A tape label consists of three fields, separated by two ``.'' (dots), e.g. xyz.a.b
The first number (xyz) is an index, that has been set arbitrarily at 10,000 at the beginning of the data taking in the 1994 run. NOTE: This number is NOT the run number. It is a consecutive index for the physical tapes, each of which can have several runs on it. The other two numbers (a,b) are indices for the multistreaming. a is the number of tapes to which data was simultanously written to, the other an index (1 b a). If there is only one tape as output device, then a = b = 1. Output to disk or trashcan has of course no tape label.
The dp0 user interface does NOT accept labels in any other format.



Online software development
Sun Apr 23 22:04:26 EDT 1995