source wanted

[Kevin Carosso]

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
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