larry@sbo.UUCP (Larry Mullen) (10/05/88)
>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. > About a year ago, a package was published on the net which will do all this and more. It was called ANSI TAPE, or GENERALIZED Magtape, and written by someone at the University of Amsterdam. It will read/write ANSI labeled tapes in ASCII or EBCDIC, print tape labels, and even supplies a general library for working with these tapes. It should be avaliable from the archives. --- Larry Mullen Motorola Computer Systems Tempe, AZ ...nud!sbo!larry