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- Path: brl-tgr!seismo!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!mackay
- From: mackay@uw-june (Pierre MacKay)
- Newsgroups: net.sources
- Subject: ansitar, read and write ANSI labeled tapes
- Date: Sat, 19-May-84 13:13:23 EDT
- Organization: U. Washington, Computer Sci
-
- Ansitar reads from or writes to a magnetic tape in ANSI labeled
- tape format, which is a useful format for exchange of ASCII
- character files with a non-UNIX system. Eight-bit binary is
- also possible, using F-type blocking, but the results are
- likely to be unsatisfactory in most cases.
-
- This program was forwarded to me in answer to a desperate request, and
- has already proved very useful. It appeared on net.sources earlier
- with ANSI System level 1 capacities, and has now acquired System
- level 3 capacities (i. e. everything but spanned records). Spanned
- records would not be very difficult, but they do not seem to be
- very much in demand either.
-
- It reads and writes HDR2 labels as well as HDR1 labels, and is thus
- capable of deblocking tapes without explicit declaration of block
- or record sizes. A large number of the more interesting features
- are still marked off as VARIAN code because that is the way I received the
- program. The VARIAN code is basic to efficient operation, unlike the
- PIP code, which is for a rather special environment.
-
- I have not bothered to provide a makefile, since there is only one
- program here. ansitar.1 belongs ideally in /usr/man/man1 and
- the executable program anywhere in a generally used path.
-
- mackay@washington.ARPA (Computer Science, Univ of Washington)
-