Re: Tape question

["System Support Products, Inc." <lforlini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2:26 PM -0500 7/18/00, Pamela Phillips wrote:
[snip]
>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?

    I haven't heard of a Tar program for the AS/400, but you can 
probably skip a few transfer steps by getting the data from a 
physical file into the IFS and letting the PC work on it there, then 
moving it back to a physical file.

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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