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From: berger@clio.sts.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc
Subject: Re: Summary of responses, reading a CDC tape (very long)
Keywords: cdc, 9-track tapes, summary
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Date: 11 May 91 21:11:34 GMT
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dave@seas.gwu.edu (David M. Owczarek) writes:
>I was able to get blocking information and tape density through a
>few phone calls.  I now have 3 tapes to read, not two, although it
>turns out that the two important ones were written in ascii, so 
>I've gotten good results with dd.  My only unresolved problem is
>that there are no CR/LF's in the data, so the first file I read had
>823 words on one line.  If I can't find a reasonable way to break the
>lines up it will become a problem for the guy who wants the data, as
>I am not going to plow through gazillions of files sticking in new lines.
*----
Did anybody bother to mention that CDC denotes end-of-line with 12 bits
of 0 at the end of a 60 bit word?  I believe Compass even had a command
to detect that.
--
	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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