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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ascii tape
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Date: 18 Apr 91 00:26:10 GMT
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In article <26571@adm.brl.mil> JTUCKER%cs-den.prime.com@relay.cs.net writes:
>I've got a US census tape I can not figure out how to read on a SUN
>The 1/2" tape is in ascii format.  Does anyone know what UNIX commands will
>let me extract the files.

I think you mean "ANSI format".  I know of two publically available Unix
programs that can read them: ansitar and ansitape.  Ansitape seems to be
more recent, and is in Volume 8 of the comp.sources.unix archive, which you
can get from uunet.uu.net, in the directory
/comp.sources.unix/volume8/ansitape.

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