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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Creating IBM Labeled Tapes
Keywords: tape, ebcdic
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.201322.5667@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 23 Apr 91 20:13:22 GMT
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Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software
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williams@cac.stratus.com writes:

>Does anyone know of (or advise me on how to write) a tape utility that creates
>IBM labeled tapes in ebcdic?   I know that "dd" will convert my data from
>ascii to ebcdic but the what about the label format?

I've got a program I wrote a while back that creates these labels.  Since
the label(s) are separate files from the data, the program writes to a
file which can then be put on the tape (using the /dev/n... device) using
dd to do conversion.  If anyone wants the program, just let me know.

Steven
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