Aucbvax.5527 fa.info-vax utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Tue Dec 22 21:32:44 1981 Re: VAX-VMS Tape Handling Facility >From FONER@MIT-AI Tue Dec 22 21:24:28 1981 We have a similar program at my site, called TAPECOPY, written in FORTRAN. It's been around for ages (since our VAX/VMS 1.60 system, maybe since (gasp!) 1.50). It works okay for some tapes... it's also got a bug, though: when reading variable-length records, if it doesn't find a between where the last one was and the end of its buffer, it throws away the record from the last to the end of the buffer it read... but after fixing that it works well for variable-length stuff, too, as well as fixed-length stuff. It also does ASCII <=> EBCDIC translation. If anybody has a program with a similar bug, it's probably the same program. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.