From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: Re: VMS-Unix tape exchange Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7245 Posted: Tue May 18 20:01:10 1982 Received: Thu May 20 02:05:12 1982 >From RWK@SCRC-TENEX@MIT-AI Tue May 18 19:53:09 1982 Date: Tuesday, 18 May 1982 14:56-PDT From: greep at RAND-UNIX I'm not sure what you mean by "the obvious thing". Unix text files are stored with line-feeds but no carriage-returns. I have a very simple program which adds carriage returns which I will be glad to send you if you want. Its output can be directed right to /dev/mt0, or you can pipe it through dd if you want to select the tape block size. Going the other way, carriage returns can be deleted with the tr program. I'm confused. What's wrong with just writing an ANSI standard format tape? Software exists for reading and writing ANSI standard format tapes from UNIX. Then your tapes can be read on VMS, TOPS20 (software for ANSI tapes exists at MIT (ANSIWRITE & ANSIREAD on XX, complete with HELP file), Multics, IBM, etc.). I will carefully abstain from flaming about how Unix has historically been oblivious to how the rest of the world communicates. If the software to handle ANSI tapes isn't on your Unix, I'll ask around to find it. A copy was sent to Fateman at Berkeley to facilitate shipping MACSYMA sources from MIT to Berkeley. If it didn't make it into 4.1 BSD there's no good reason for it.