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From: ggs@ulysses.att.com (Griff Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.large
Subject: Re: Tapes (was Topic List (was Survey))
Summary: EBCDIC is available
Message-ID: <13734@ulysses.att.com>
Date: 13 Sep 90 18:00:38 GMT
References: <6f7y02Ubc6wm01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <25894@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1990Sep12.162503.3778@wolves.uucp>
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In article <1990Sep12.162503.3778@wolves.uucp>, ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
> The real fun though, (and I probably misspoke myself above) is that more
> often we have tapes from an EBCDIC environment.  In most cases, the
> EBCDIC tapes have labels that are ansi compatible, but are encoded in
> EBCDIC instead of ascii.  Additionally, the programs I have seen are all
> level 2 or worse in terms of label standard.  I could live with level 3,
> but level 4 would be wonderful!
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> We are going to try writing our own, and I may be able to publish it
> here on the net, but I would like to avoid reinventing the wheel.
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The AT&T ToolChest has a package of tools for interpreting EBCDIC tapes.
It's mostly aimed at tapes generated by COBOL or PL/1.  Part of the
package is a program generator that writes custom translation programs.
Label processing is included, but the only labels it pays attention to
are {VOL,HDR,EOV,EOF}1 and {HDR,EOV,EOF}2.
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