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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? > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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