Re: Reading from 9 track tape

Posted in 1994

Bob Beaulieu — Thu, 13 Oct 1994 06:37:20 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <37gu4l$nqq@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> estabroo@sea07s.navsea.navy.mil (Peter Estabrook) writes: >I'm looking for a unix utility to read EBCDIC data from a 9 track tape. Look up the dd command. Its been a while, but off the top of my head: dd if=/dev/tape_device \\ : specifies tape dev (our is /dev/rmt/m0) of=output_file \\ : name of file you want data written to bs=size_of_block \\ : size of blocking (try 1024) conv=ascii \\ : converts EBCDIC input to ASCII output look in the man pages for more info.. Bob