Re: Tape browsing program

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From: Ted Manos
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1991 11:47

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On Tue, 12 Mar 91 05:35:00 GMT Frank Jansen - CSC said:
>Greetings,
>          Does anyone know of an FTP site with a program for looking at the
>contents of tapes without having to know blocksizes or the format ?
>Preferably written in C, FORTRAN or Pascal. Any other code that could read
>IBM standard label tapes would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Well, it's not axactly available by FTP, but IBM's DITTO for VM and VSE
has always worked well for me.  Just use the TCN (Tape to CoNsole) command.
You don't need to tell it anything other than what drive the tape is on.
The new DITTO (V3.1.0) is even fully menu-driven (which I personally am
not fond of, but it's great for occasional users) and has excellent HELP
screens.  Hope this helps.  Oh, it handles non-SL tapes and ASCII tapes
too.

-Ted
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