Carry tape

[Stephen Robbins <Stever@SCRC-YUKON.ARPA>]

    Date: Sat, 11 Feb 89 14:53 EST
    From: barmar@Think.COM (Barry Margolin)

    Has anyone modified Read Carry Tape so that it doesn't ask so many
    questions?

I started working on something like this, once.  On the carry tape, you can get
a string representing the original dump group (wildcard pathname that generated
the specific on-tape filename) and pathname of the specific file.  At Read
Carry Tape time, you could ask for a wildcard output spec for each dump group.

So at Read Carry Tape time, you have:
        specific filename as text string
        dump group, which was the wildcard pathname used to generate the
                    specific file
        dump group output wildcard spec

That's enough to use (FLAVOR:METHOD :TRANSLATE-WILD-PATHNAME PATHNAME) to
generate a meaningful output file name.

If you actually do something like this, I'd love to have a copy.

Read Carry Tape

     1Dump Groups0		1Restore Into
0  IVORY:>Stever>**>*.*.*      2Query0  1Y:>Stever>Old-Stuff>0old-1*.*.*

0Restoring IVORY:>Stever>Frobbozz>Mumble.frotz into
          Y:>Stever>Old-Stuff>Frobbozz>Old-Mumble.frotz

-- Stephen