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Article #90Re: Summary of responses, reading a CDC tape (very long)
From: Mike Berger
Date: Sat, 11 May 1991 21:11
Date: Sat, 11 May 1991 21:11
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dave@seas.gwu.edu (David M. Owczarek) writes: >I was able to get blocking information and tape density through a >few phone calls. I now have 3 tapes to read, not two, although it >turns out that the two important ones were written in ascii, so >I've gotten good results with dd. My only unresolved problem is >that there are no CR/LF's in the data, so the first file I read had >823 words on one line. If I can't find a reasonable way to break the >lines up it will become a problem for the guy who wants the data, as >I am not going to plow through gazillions of files sticking in new lines. *---- Did anybody bother to mention that CDC denotes end-of-line with 12 bits of 0 at the end of a 60 bit word? I believe Compass even had a command to detect that. -- Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!clio.sts.uiuc.edu!berger From: berger@clio.sts.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc Subject: Re: Summary of responses, reading a CDC tape (very long) Keywords: cdc, 9-track tapes, summary Message-ID: <1991May11.211134.21449@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 11 May 91 21:11:34 GMT References: <3161@sparko.gwu.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 18