Re: Tape question

Pamela !

DEFINITELY tell your vendor to get you a tape you can READ "natively" without 
all
the "jumping through hoops" - if it is an AS/400 application they should provide
that !  I'd go for 8mm over the reel media...
Do you have a CD drive (what model AS/400) ? Lot's of vendors have FINALLY
started using that !

Good luck !

Chuck

Pamela Phillips wrote:

> I know nobody wants to hear about a 9347, but we can't get rid of ours quite
> yet. A vendor sends us data on reels, and as you can guess we have had a lot
> of problems reading the tapes. The only other common medium between us
> appears to be 8mm. We have progressed to the point where we have a test tape
> that we can dump successfully.  The dump shows the data is ASCII, and that it
> was encoded with the UNIX tar utility.
> How do we get the file off the tape? I searched the archives, and the only
> solution I could find involved jumping the data through several hoops to a PC
> so we could un-tar it using winzip. That would mean pushing it back onto the
> 400 where the programs that need the data sit.
> Is there such a thing as TAR/400? Or what should we ask our vendor do that
> will give us a tape we can read just a little more easily?
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