Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site scgvaxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!kvc 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 Article-I.D.: scgvaxd.382 Posted: Mon Aug 19 18:11:53 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:47:12 EDT References: <454@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> Reply-To: kvc@scgvaxd.UUCP (Kevin Carosso) Distribution: net Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA Lines: 20 Summary: 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.