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From: frew%crseo@hub.ucsb.edu (Jim Frew)
Subject: [sun-managers] Re: Reading DEC tapes with Sun OS
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Archive-name: hardware/tapes/dectp/1990-12-11
Archive: titan.rice.edu:/incoming/dectp.shar [128.42.1.30]
Original-posting-by: frew%crseo@hub.ucsb.edu (Jim Frew)
Original-subject: Re: Reading DEC tapes with Sun OS
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On 11 Dec 90 16:27:38 EST, Brian Cole <bragrt!bec@uunet.uu.net> wrote:

>I am trying to transfer ASCII data from a DEC VAX to a Sun 4/490
>via 1/2" tape.  Has anyone done this before ?  If so, what method
>works best ??   Ideally, I would like to know what command I need
>to use on the VAX, and then which command I should use on the Sun.

(I was unable to send mail to bragrt!bec@uunet.uu.net, so I am
 responding to the list -- no flames please.)

I wrote a program "dectp" that reads tapes written by the VMS COPY
command.  I use it regularly to transfer data from a VMS system to a
Sun-3/280 running 4.0.3.  The source is available in:

	titan.rice.edu:~ftp/incoming/dectp.shar

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