Owner's manual

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 43
Playback options
(two text boxes
and one button)
Directory for temporary files created during
playback from tape:
In this text box you can specify a particular directory to
be the “working directory” to hold the files spooled to
disk while tape operations are underway. If you don’t
specify a temporary directory, ISIS will use your current
directory to hold the temporary files.
Directory file num
In this text box you can supply a number corresponding
to the name of a file you wish to play back.
Play Now
Starts playing the file number specified in Directory file
num. To get to the file, your system rewinds or
advances the tape from the current position on the tape,
bypassing (without playing back) any intervening files.
Record options
(check boxes)
Delete temporary files from hard disk.
After a recording session has completed, you may want
to get rid of the temporary files, which can be rather
large. Use this option to have Isis automatically purge
them from your disk at the end of your session. The
default is to have this feature disabled (unchecked and
therefore off).
Auto “Advance to End” before recording.
You can further streamline your recording session by
having Isis automatically position the tape head to the
first point on your tape that has not been written to. You
can, of course, manually advance the tape to the first
unwritten portion by choosing File  Tape Drive Control
and then clicking Advance to End.
Automatically start recording data to selected tape
drive when record mode is started.
Checking this option will begin recording your data to
the tape drive indicated by the darkened Tape drive
radio button in the Tape Drive Control dialog box (the
parent dialog box of Tape Drive Control Options).
Copy files
(child buttons)
Disk to Tape: See ‘To copy files from disk to tape’.
Tape to Disk: See ‘To copy files from tape to disk’.
Tape to Tape: See ‘To copy files from tape to tape’.
Chapter 3: Using the File Menu