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From: tli@sargas.usc.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: How to read non-initialized 6250 tapes in vms?
Message-ID: <2404@sargas.usc.edu>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 02:18:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 29 02:18:34 1987
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Keywords: tapes

In article <1177@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> hearn@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (hearn) writes:
    
    We have several machines here. One of them puts out 6250tapes in
    a standard oil industry format that can't be read by vms.
    I've been told that this is because the the tapes arent vms intialized.
    I can transfer 1600 ttapes. I can also read the tapes on an ibm (cms).
    But vms just finds 0 length records. Any ideas anyone?
    
Mount the tape /foreign and use dump (i.e. DUMP MTA0:) to peruse the
data...  This will at least tell you if the tape format is readable on
your drive.  As always, reading the format and making sense of it will
require programming....

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