Re: 8mm TAR to PC through an AS/400

[Robert Montague <slew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:42 AM 6/15/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>Before I begin I know RTFM, but it keeps leading me in circles.
>
>I need to take an 8 mm tape created on a Unix system with TAR to a PC
>file.
>
>The AS/400 is at V3R2, has the 8 mm attached and the Win95 PC connected
>via CA/400. I can probably find a shareware program that will convert
>the TAR format on the PC so what I need to do is get the file from the 8
>mm to a *STRMF on the AS/400 without any bit changes.
>
>CPYTOSTRMF requires a database file. CPY doesn't seem to recognize
>"/QSYS.LIB/TAP01.DEVD" as a valid source. CPYFRMTAP doesn't recognize
>the IFS.
>
>BTW anybody have the url for a fair utility to read the TAR and produce
>a PC file.
>
>TIA
>
>Roger Vicker, CCP
>
>--
>*** Vicker Programming and Service *** Have bits will byte ***
>Wisdom of many and the wit of a half.
>
>
>
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It would appear that the latest version of Winzip95 will handled the pc
conversion of
the tar.  Below is an excerpt from the help file:

·       TAR, Z, GZ, TAZ, and TGZ files are often found on Unix-based Internet
sites.  The relationship between these file types is less straightforward
than the aforementioned file formats.  The important thing to remember is
that WinZip handles all these formats the same way as Zip files, so you
don't need to know the details.  Here is more information on these formats:
 TAR stands for "Tape ARchive".  This is an old file format and does not
provide compression; it is used only to group files. 

Regards,

Bob Montague

slew@accessone.com
>
>

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