Hi Jeff, Do you know of a utility that can copy tapes created on IBM systems that are in EBCIDIC format to ASCII format on the AlphaServer? Drake Settsu Email : dsettsu@yahoo.com |
Dave ... I'm sorry I don't have exactly what you
are looking for at this time. I do have a generic tape copy
utility written in PASCAL, which you can find on my
PASCAL
page, but it does not convert EBCDIC to ASCII. However OpenVMS doesn't leave you high
and dry in this matter. If you are a competent programmer
and can write a program to read and write physical blocks
from a tape (or logical records from a variable record size
disk file), you should easily be able to translate your
data. If you are running on a VAX, you can download a set of
callable VAX-MACRO subroutines called TAPESUBS from my
Utilities
page. The OpenVMS runtime library provides a
routine called LIB$TRA_EBC_ASC which translates an EBCDIC
buffer into an ASCII buffer. (Conversly there is a
LIB$TRA_ASC_EBC routine as well). Let me know if you need additional help
in this area. Jeff Cameron 20-MAR-2000 PS : Micro
Technology Inc. has a complete
VMS/IBM, ANSI/EBCDIC solution called TAPECONVERT which alows
you to convert whole tapes back and forth between
platforms.
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