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From: rudy@neptune.AMD.COM (Rudy Albachten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Help requested for file conversions
Message-ID: <975@neptune.AMD.COM>
Date: 1 Jun 89 03:44:57 GMT
References: <422@tron.UUCP>
Reply-To: rudy@neptune.AMD.COM (Rudy Albachten)
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Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, Texas
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In article <422@tron.UUCP> kerr@tron (Dave Kerr) writes:
>I have files created on an apollo by the Mentor Graphics CAD
>software packages. Many of the files are of type rec, or hdru.
>I would like to find a way to convert these into a form that is
>suitable for E-mailing to another site.
>

We have encountered a similar problem moving designs from one
site to another that is only networked via traditional TCP/IP.
What we do is make a backup file using iwbak then ftp the
backup file and use irbak to restore it. The apollo wbak and
rbak commands only read/write tapes, but mentor has iwbak/irbak
available. These commands can also read/write backup files as
well as tapes. You should be able to encode/decode these files
and mail them. If anyone uses iwbak/irbak for ftp-ing things,
one gotcha to watch for: you can use binary mode OR ascii mode,
but if you store it on a remote computer then fetch it from
that computer, you must use the same mode both times.

Does anyone know if apollo plans to supply a wbak-like command
that can use files or stdio like tar can? I don't want tar, since
it doesn't understand apollo's file types (and I do like having
all those file types). We currently use SR9.7, so forgive me
if it's already in SR10. (We'll be upgrading to SR10.1 real soon.)

Rudy Albachten            rudy@amdcad.amd.com
Advanced Micro Devices    512/462-5118
Austin Texas