Aucbvax.5527
fa.info-vax
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Tue Dec 22 21:32:44 1981
Re:  VAX-VMS Tape Handling Facility
>From FONER@MIT-AI Tue Dec 22 21:24:28 1981
We have a similar program at my site, called TAPECOPY, written in
FORTRAN.  It's been around for ages (since our VAX/VMS 1.60 system,
maybe since (gasp!) 1.50).

It works okay for some tapes...  it's also got a bug, though: when
reading variable-length records, if it doesn't find a <CR> between
where the last one was and the end of its buffer, it throws away the
record from the last <CR> to the end of the buffer it read...  but
after fixing that it works well for variable-length stuff, too, as
well as fixed-length stuff.  It also does ASCII <=> EBCDIC
translation.  If anybody has a program with a similar bug, it's
probably the same program.

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