Re: Tape question

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I beleive I am correct that the AS/400 does not support an unlabelled 8mm
tape. It's the same for 1/4 in cartridge.  I tried for some time to restore
RS/6000 tapes to a 400. Rochester support said it won't work (at V4R1 three
years ago).  They suggested FTP, which worked great.
Jim Franz

----- Original Message -----
From: "System Support Products, Inc." <lforlini@sspi-software.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: Tape question


> 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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