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Subject: ds names on tape
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Date: Tue, 23-Dec-86 06:52:00 EST
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   I have a couple of questions about ansi labelled tapes on vms.

   I was trying to copy a tape which is supposed to be ansi
labelled, but which was not created on a vax.  For one thing,
when I did a directory of the tape, some of the names were in quotes
and to copy them I had to put the names in quotes also.


   When I simply  tried to copy the tape *.* I got
an error opening one of the files for output (on what looked like
a quite ordinary name -- not even in quotes) and this
caused the system to get into a state where I couldn't
open any files for output till I logged off and back on.


   My questions are: Can anyone clarify the situation with respect
to the quotes and can anyone tell me is there a way tocopy
the whole tape.


   Also, I was looking at using etape to copy some of the files,
but etape does not handle variable length records which
these all are.   Is there any program to handle such
records on a tape which I will pretend is non labelled?


   Thanks in advance.


         JOhn Covici