Aucbvax.5524 fa.info-vax utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Tue Dec 22 03:08:37 1981 Re: VAX-VMS Tape Handling Facility >From ROODE@SRI-KL Tue Dec 22 03:00:44 1981 I have seen two sites that have a handy program laying around called MTREAD (origin uncertain) which will read fixed-blocked magtape and also have the option to perform EBCDIC<->ASCII translation. I believe it came out on one of the early symposium tapes for VAX/VMS. It is fairly straightforward to do yourself, but it seems worthwhile to propogate one standard hack. I bet many sites have it and don't realize it. Also, I think DEC Software Sales people were propogating it, and it might be available from your local office. ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.