WEOF

WEOF statement allows the program to write an EOF mark on an attached tape device.

COMMAND SYNTAX

    WEOF { ON expression }

expression specifies the device channel to use. It should evaluate to a numeric integer argument in the range 0-9, the default value is zero.

If the WEOF fails it then executes the statements associated with any ELSE clause. SYSTEM(0) will return the reason for the failure as follows:

Code	Description
1	There is no media attached to the channel.
2	End of media found.

A "tape" does not refer to magnetic tape devices only but to any device described previously to TAFC.

If the specified channel has no assigned tape device, it enters the TAFC debugger with an appropriate message.

    WEOF ON 5 ELSE
        CRT "No tape device exists for channel 5"
    END

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