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From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Card Image tapes
Message-ID: <2011@rti.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 88 03:41:33 GMT
References: <8801202140.aa29268@CRDEC-VAX2.CRDEC-VAX2.ARPA>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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Summary: Card image tapes

In article <8801202140.aa29268@CRDEC-VAX2.CRDEC-VAX2.ARPA>, jmleonar@CRDEC-VAX2.ARPA (jle) writes:
> Does anybody have code to create a card-image tape (preferably w/o
> labels) under VMS?  Is there a permutation of the init/mount/copy
> command that would do the trick?
> 
I'm not sure if there is any permutation of init/mount/copy which will
produce card-image tapes under VMS.  Whenever I need to do that I have
used a simple utility I wrote to do it (it is not at all difficult if
you know any VMS programming language).  It's been a long time since I've
needed to do anything like that, but if anyone is interested I can post
it (it's not real long but I will have to try to dig it up from tape
heaven).  Warning:  It's in PL/I, so probably not many people can just
compile it directly.

I suspect that there is a way to do this with either MTU or MTEXCH from
DECUS, but I've only ever needed to use those for IBM tapes .....

					Bruce C. Wright