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TUAAAA.HLP, April 1991
We produced literally thousands of magnetic tapes in ANSI, IBM OS SL,
DUMPER, Tar, CPIO, and other formats, and received quite a few tapes (not to
mention diskettes, cartridges, and other media) from other sites containing
their contributions. Since we only had one or two computers for making and
reading tapes, we had to do a lot of format conversion and wound up writing
several programs for reading and writing "alien" tape formats and for
copying tape-to-tape as fast as possible, since sometimes we had order
backlogs of hundreds of tapes, and if we cut them one at a time we'd still
be working on the backlog!
This file lists the tape utility programs written by or found and used by
the Kermit Project. The names all follow this format:
TU<s><f><tape>.<filetype>
where:
TU (for Tape Utilities) is the filename prefix for all the files,
<s> is a single letter telling what System the program runs on:
C - Any system with a C compiler
I - IBM mainframes
U - Unix
V - VAX/VMS
<f> is a single letter telling the Function of the program:
R - Reads tapes
W - Writes tapes
B - Both reads and writes tapes
P - A pre- or postprocessing program
C - Copies one tape to another
<tape> is a 2-character sequence specifying the kind of tape:
AD - ANSI "D" Format (variable length records preceded by byte counts)
BU - VAX/VMS BACKUP tapes
OS - IBM EBCDIC OS Standard Label tapes, VB format (variable block)
XX - Any kind of tape
AO - ANSI "D" format or OS Standard Label VB format
TA - UNIX tar format
T2 - UNIX tar format (a different program)
<filetype> is a 1-to-3 character sequence specifying the type of file:
ASM - Assembly language
C - C language program source
HLP - Help file (plain text)
NR - Nroff text formatter source (for UNIX man page)
Here's a list of the programs:
Kermit Original
Name Name Contributor Purpose
TUCPAD ANSID Columbia U. Unpack ANSI-D records (on disk)
TUIROS OSTAPE Columbia U. Read on OS tape on VM/CMS systems
TUIRAO SPROSC John Chandler Read OS and ANSI tapes on VM/CMS
TUUBAD ANSITAR ??? Read/Write ANSI tapes on UNIX
TUUCXX COPYTAPE Columbia U. Copy tapes on UNIX systems
TUURBU VMSBU Monash U. Read VMS Backup tapes on UNIX systems
TUUROS OSTAPE Columbia U. Read OS SL tapes on UNIX systems
TUUWAO CUTAPE Columbia U. Write OS or ANSI tapes on UNIX
TUVRTA RTAR ??? Read UNIX tar tapes on VAX/VMS
TUVRT2 TAR2VMS Queen's U. Read UNIX tar tapes on VAX/VMS
TUVWTA WTAR ??? Write UNIX tar tapes on VAX/VMS
It's probably a good idea to rename the files from their distribution names
to their original names before building and using them.
(End of TUAAAA.HLP)