NETDATA to TAPE without Disk

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From: Dwight M. McCann
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1992 16:02

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I have been asked to provide a service machine that will accept NETDATA
files and convert them to card images or print images and then either
wrap control information around them (maybe JCL) and send them to another
host or write them to tape or both.  Due to the potential size of these
files, I am constrained to perform deblocking in memory (which I prefer
in any case) rather than reading them to disk as an intermediate step.
I would like to locate sourced programs that can perform any steps in
this process.  My preference is use of Diagnose interfaces to process the
Spool Files and drive tape.  If anyone knows how to drive the virtual
punch more than one record at a time, I'd also be interested in that.

My current plan is to use REXX (with Pipes) and write whatever assembler
primitives turn out to be necessary.

Dwight (not a Piper, so plumbing suggestions and hints gratefully accepted)

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Subject:      NETDATA to TAPE without Disk