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From: milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Need Help Reading 9-Track Tapes written on a VAX.
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Date: 24 Aug 90 03:10:18 GMT
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In article <4180@pikes.Colorado.EDU> scpinker@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Scott C. Pinkerton) writes:
>Hello, I have recently received a 9-Track tape from some people working on a
>VAX.  I am using an HP9000/375 running HP-UX 7.0, with a HP7980XC.  I've tried
>a few simple approaches to read the data (ascii) off of the tape - with little
>success.  I have tried frecover, tar, and cpio to read the tape but no luck
>so far.  The tape included a data sheet with the following info:

[info deleted]

>Does this provide enough info to allow some knowledgable sole to help read
this >data ??  How are other people trading data between VAXes on 9-Track.
If there >is a better command to use on the VAX which allows easier reading
on the HP >side that's ok too.  Does the VAX have an equivalent tar command
??

The tape was made using VMS' BACKUP utility.  You have pretty much no
hope of reading this with your hpux machine, as it contains all kinds
of VMS specific file information.  Since the data you wish to read is
ascii, the sender needs to find some VMS utility to write an ascii
tape.  There is a utility called "twrite" on our VMS systems, which
allows one to write either EBCDIC or ascii tapes.  If you need to
investigate this further, I can ask our VMS folks about how this
utility can be obtained.


-jem
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