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From: stubblef@ALMSA-1.arpa
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Subject: Tape Downloading
Message-ID: <10019@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 09:50:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 09:50:37 1987
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Does anyone know of a currently existing public domain or otherwise free 
utility program or programs which will run on a Sperry 5000 model 80 under
UNIX System V and do the following:
         
    1 - Read a multi-reel tape dataset encoded in EBCDIC with standard
        IBM labels.
    
    2 - Convert the above dataset to ASCII.
   
    3 - Here is the hook. These records will be what we refer to as
        'truly variable'. That is, they consist of a fixed length
        header portion and one or more (but always at least one)
        trailer portions which may be of different lengths. [Example -
        a 50 byte header with three trailer portions. One is 15 bytes
        in length. The second is 30 and the last is 9 bytes in length.
 
If we have to, we can write something ourselves. But we are pushing a 
deadline and don't want to reinvent the wheel.

 
Thanks ahead of time --

Glenda Stubblefield
USALMSA
St. Louis, MO