wasrud@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Jeffrey Wasrud) (02/08/88)
Does anyone know of a program, similar to the program "precis" for IBM mainframes, for the 3B series?? This program reads any tape, with any file structure, and prints out the first 80 bytes of the first ten records of every file on the tape. It also prints out the number of blocks in each file, the minimum and maximum bytes per block in each file, and the number of files on the tape. WE're desperately in need of something that will allow us to determine what's on the tape before we try to read it. We get data from the U.S. government and from the French, and will soon be getting data from the Japanese and perhaps the Russians. They've got varying ideas as to what an IBM standard label is, and sometimes the labels change from tape to tape. Please help