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From: dave@seas.gwu.edu (David M. Owczarek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc
Subject: Reading a CDC tape on a unix system
Keywords: CDC, unix, 9-track tape
Message-ID: <3134@sparko.gwu.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 91 17:38:15 GMT
Reply-To: dave@seas.gwu.edu (David M. Owczarek)
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I recently was asked if I could read two CDC tapes on our systems here.
We have a Sun 3/480 (SunOS 4.1), Sun 4-280 (SunOS 4.1.1), HP 9000-835SE
(HP-UX 3.1B), and Alliant FX/8 (Concentrix 5.6.00).  I was also told that
a CDC tape uses either an IBM CMS format or something similar.  I was able
to get a program which reads IBM tapes from uunet.uu.net, but this 
program tells me the tape is not IBM format.

Is there a kind sole out there who might be able to suggest:

1) A source for code to read the tape (anonymous ftp)?
2) What the tape format looks like?

I'm sorry the information is sketchy; the guy handed me two 9-track
tapes and told me they were written on a CDC machine, and that he knew 
nothing else about it.

Thanks in advance,

-Dave





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