If you are running backup and it is asking for additional tapes, then I believe you can do the following
^Y $spawn $ $reply/enable=all initialize additional tapes as needed (prior tape should have rewound…) mount tape $reply/to=MESSAGEID $exit $continue Jerry Weiss WB9MRI j...@ieee.org > On Jun 13, 2015, at 8:04 PM, Mark J. Blair <n...@nf6x.net> wrote: > > Thanks! I will try that out. > >> On Jun 13, 2015, at 18:01, Glen Slick <glen.sl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Mark J. Blair <n...@nf6x.net> wrote: >>> Thanks, I will read that. But how do I enter the reply command when the >>> BACKUP program is hogging the console? Is there a VMS equivalent to the way >>> a task can be suspended in UNIX with ^Z? >> >> I'm no expert, but I think you can sometimes do ^Y, and then CONTINUE, >> but only if you only execute built-in commands between the ^Y and the >> CONTINUE.
