nagy%warner.hepnet@LBL.GOV (Frank J. Nagy, VAX Wizard & Guru) (08/08/88)
> Does anybody out there have a good/fast tape copy utility? See the [VAX000.TOOLS] area on the latest (Spring '88) VAX SIG tape. This area has a collection of tools used to manipulate (LZCMP and LZDCM) and copy the SIG tapes. These tools have also appeared on earlier VAX SIG tapes for several years in several different places (a good place to look is Glenn Everhart's submissions in [VAXxxx.RCAyyy...]). > I would like the following features: > 1) direct tape-to-tape TCOPY does tape-to-tape copies. I have no experience with it at this time so cannot comment. > 2) tape-disk-tape The latest is VMSTPC (TPC in VAX-native mode). This does tape-to-disk and disk-to-tape. Originally written to make SIG tape copies from a master container file on the disk. > 3) Absolutely NO translation Both programs *exactly* reproduce the input tape. > 4) Source in either C or Fortran As I remember, TCOPY is written in MACRO and VMSTPC is in VAX C. > The one I am now using takes well over an hour to do a tape-tape, and surely > there must be a better one out there than that. > All help appreciated... I haven't used TCOPY, but VMSTPC is *FAST*. It literally makes a TK50 (yes, the TimeKiller50) scream right along. = Frank J. Nagy "VAX Guru & Wizard" = Fermilab Research Division EED/Controls = HEPNET: WARNER::NAGY (43198::NAGY) or FNAL::NAGY (43009::NAGY) = BitNet: NAGY@FNAL = USnail: Fermilab POB 500 MS/220 Batavia, IL 60510