What is FATMEN ?

What is FATMEN (stands for File and Tape Management: Experimental Needs)? The FATMEN package is a distributed File and Tape management system.

Advantages of using the FATMEN system (according to manual):

• Access to data by a Unix-like name, the so-called generic-name. The FATMEN system is responsible for matching this name against a physical dataset.

• Consistent access, regardless of host operating system, medium on which data are stored or location.
• The FATMEN package allows multiple copies of the same data to be referenced by the same generic name. The system itself will choose the most appropriate copy, based on a simple search order.
• Possibility of adding comments and other user information on datasets.
• No need to know underlying commands, such as STAGE, SETUP etc. with their system dependent syntax.

See http://wwwcn.cern.ch/asdoc/fatmen/FATMENMAIN.html for more info...

• Similarities with HEPDB
• The Command Line interface