source wanted
Kevin Carosso
kvc at scgvaxd.UUCP
Tue Aug 20 08:11:53 AEST 1985
In article <454 at ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> goldman at 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.
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