Aucbvax.5524
fa.info-vax
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Tue Dec 22 03:08:37 1981
Re:  VAX-VMS Tape Handling Facility
>From ROODE@SRI-KL Tue Dec 22 03:00:44 1981
I have seen two sites that have a handy program laying around called
MTREAD (origin uncertain) which will read fixed-blocked magtape
and also have the option to perform EBCDIC<->ASCII translation.
I believe it came out on one of the early symposium tapes for VAX/VMS.
It is fairly straightforward to do yourself, but it seems worthwhile
to propogate one standard hack.  I bet many sites have it
and don't realize it.  Also, I think DEC Software Sales people were
propogating it, and it might be available from your local office.
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