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From: zellich@stl-07sima.army.mil ( Rich Zellich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Reading IBM Tape
Message-ID: <23453@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 May 90 01:52:34 GMT
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If the problem is reading a standard-label EBCDIC tape, then we have a
general-purpose utility program that can read it and write an ASCII stream
to disk (dropping the labels).  The utility actually uses the information
in the labels, so it can handle blocked or unblocked, and fixed or variable
lenght records, as well as multi-reel files, multi-file reels, or combinations
of both multi-reel/-file.

The kicker is that the main section of the program is written in COBOL
(Philon COBOL), with the low-level I/O done by file open, close, read, and
write subroutines in C.

If this program (set of 5, actually, with the low-level I/O subroutines)
will help anyone, send me E-mail and I'll try to send it to you (my host
does *not* use domain name service, but still relies on the old NIC host
tables, so I may or may not be able to reply to the From: address in any
given received message).

Cheers,
Rich