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From: ggs@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Griff Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX to IBM VM/CMS File Transfers ???
Summary: look at the AT&T Toolchest
Keywords: UNIX VM/CMS communications
Message-ID: <10690@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 4 Oct 88 02:25:18 GMT
References: <60@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <60@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>, dymm@b.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (David Dymm) writes:
| 
> I am looking for a UNIX utility that can create IBM format
> tapes on my UNIX system.
> With this utility, I can load the tape onto the IBM system,
> and read the tape directly into VM/CMS without having to
> worry about translation of special characters.
> This means that the UNIX utility must create IBM "labeled"
> tapes with variable length records in EBCDIC, and be able
> to directly translate ASCII files to EBCDIC when writing them
> to the tape.  In this way, the process of moving files from UNIX
> to IBMd would be transparent.
| 
| Does anyone know of such a UNIX utility????
| (Don't care about cost.....)

There is a collection of functions and utilities called "tape-tools"
in the AT&T Toolchest.  The package is mostly intended to go the other
direction - simplify Unix System access to IBM tapes, but it also has
a (ksh) shell script that writes IBM labeled tapes using dd.  If you
know what IBM labels look like, you can build a credible replica of the
script by making ASCII `here' documents that look like header and trailer
labels and processing them with dd.
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