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From: ggs@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Griff Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 9-track tape info (summary)
Summary: missed one
Keywords: 9-track magentic tape reel
Message-ID: <11946@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 29 Jul 89 16:46:53 GMT
References: <43486@bbn.COM>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <43486@bbn.COM>, rwillis@bbn.com (Robert Willis) writes:
  
> I previously asked for information about reading and writing 9-track tapes
> in various formats.  Here is a summary of the information which I received.
> ...
> 3)  Other relevant software:

A package called tape-tools that is in the AT&T tool chest.  An EBCDIC
to ASCII translator knows about most IBM tape formats.  There is also a
program generator that can build custom programs for translating data
that is in EBCDIC, binary, floating point and packed decimal.
-- 
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