Reading Tapes

[Greg Copeland]

It's been a while so forgive me if I've got this wrong,
but shouldn't you be doing:
dat = open( '\\\\.\\Tape0' ).read()


Greg


"Juan Huertas" <jhg at galdon.com> writes:

> Hi all.
> 
> My pc has a DAT tape (Windows 2000 Tape0) and i need to read the content of
> a tape with unix format, using low level I'ts possible to read from the
> device inside python?.
> 
> I try:
> 
> dat=open('\\.\Tape0','rb').read()
> 
> but the system does not open the file (ilegal file name: \\.\Tape0).
> 
> Un saludo.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Greg Copeland, Principal Consultant
Copeland Computer Consulting
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