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From: kvc@scgvaxd.UUCP (Kevin Carosso)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: source wanted
Message-ID: <382@scgvaxd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 18:11:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 18:11:53 1985
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In article <454@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> goldman@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Ken Goldman) writes:
>The question: does anyone know of any software which runs under VMS
>which can read a tar tape into a file and vice versa.  The one I saw
>was written in VAX assembly language.
>
>Or: any other suggestions?

No reason to write a program for this...  Just copy the file off the tape
as a single entity.  Something like:

	$ mount/foreign/blocksize=xxx mta0:
	$ copy mta0: stuff.tar

should work just fine, as long as you know the blocksize.  I think I've
used something like 10240 to read tar tapes, but I don't remember.
Since you aren't interested in unpacking the tar file on VMS, you shouldn't
need a special purpose program at all.

	/Kevin Carosso     {ihnp4 | allegra | seismo}!scgvaxd!engvax!kvc
	 Hughes Aircraft Co.