Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!adm!xadmx!POSTMASTER%DICKINSN.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu From: POSTMASTER%DICKINSN.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Postmaster) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Returned network mail Message-ID: <21225@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 21 Oct 89 02:48:44 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 59 This message was automatically generated. Your mail message could not be delivered at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania because the user address was not known at our site. Addresses at Dickinson College are of the following format: username@DICKINSN e.g., POSTMASTER@DICKINSN or ALLAN_J@DICKINSN or WOLTER@DICKINSN Usernames are typically the first 8 letters of the person's last name, frequently with the first initial added, and occasionally with an underscore. As a result, it would be difficult to guess someone's username. If you do not know the address of someone at Dickinson, please send a message to POSTMASTER@DICKINSN asking for help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The following diagnostic is the reason for the return: %BNET-W-NOSUCHRCVR, receiver LEYON_C cannot be located Returned mail follows: ---------------------- Received: From PSUVM(MAILER) by DICKINSN with Jnet id 1547 for LEYON_C@DICKINSN; Fri, 20 Oct 89 22:29 EDT Received: by PSUVM (Mailer R2.03B) id 6925; Fri, 20 Oct 89 22:32:20 EDT Date: Fri, 20 Oct 89 21:36:32 EDT Reply-To: Unix-Wizards@BRL.ARPA Sender: Unix-Wizards Mailing List From: Mike Muuss Subject: Re: IBM, HONEYWELL OCTAL CODES TO UNIX PROBLEM X-To: "Charles F. Ashley" X-cc: unix-wizards-request@sem.brl.mil, logsams@a.isi.edu, unix-wizards@BRL.MIL To: Chris Leyon There are several aspects to your problem: 1) You should have your mainframe system write "export tapes" in a fixed-blocked (RECFM=FB) or unblocked (RECFM=U) format; using variable-blocked or variable-blocked-spanned records for "export" to another system makes for lots of extra trouble. 2) Often, the easiest way to process foreign tapes on a UNIX system is to read them onto disk, using the "DD" program, and the **raw** tape drive interface (often called /dev/rmt0). You can be certain that the tape drive interface is RAW if the first character output by "ls -l" is the letter "c", (eg, "crw-rw-rw- ..."). Once you have the data on disk, usually a small "C" program can unravel things. That kind of data handling in COBOL or FORTRAN will be very painful, compared to using C or PASCAL. If you need more help, contact your local Information Systems Command (ISC) detatchment; ISC is busy doing to the Army's computer systems what they did to the Army's telephones. Best, -Mike