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I just got my own unix boxes and am  new to the unix world...so
forgive the stupid question...

I will be getting several dozen labelled and unlabelled ascii
tapes (some created on vaxen, others on big blue).  What command
whould I use to copy these files from tape to disk.

-Carlos
Citicorp**, Jones & Ryan

Quote:>I will be getting several dozen labelled and unlabelled ascii
>tapes (some created on vaxen, others on big blue).  What command
>whould I use to copy these files from tape to disk.

        dd if=/dev/rmt0 of=/tmp/diskfile

The 'dd' tool assumes nothing about the way that the tapes were created, etc.
It will just dump from the tape to a file; if the architecture that you're
read from is "backwards" (bytes are swapped), then add "conv=swab" to
the above line (ie: dd if=/dev/rmt0 of=/tmp/diskfile conv=swab).  This should
do it ... those files will be in one large file which you will have to
split up (by hand, or by writing a program to do it).

Good luck!
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