Reading raw DAT tape on NT?

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From: Michael Hayworth
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00

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Want to be able to convert our mailing list and prospect database 
from a legacy system to SQL Server on NT on a multiprocessor 
Pentium or Pentium Pro.

Everything looks fine, except for a pretty significant problem I'm 
running into--the legacy system only networks on Arcnet, and then 
only by allowing a DOS partition to be created on its drives that 
another system can access. So I need to be able to get the data 
off the system to put on the new NT machine. I need to be able to 
do this via DAT tape.

I can do a raw dump to tape very similar to what mainframe systems 
do (just using a record size and a blocking factor), but I have 
not currently been able to find any utilities for NT that can read 
these raw tapes. When we purchase mailing list updates from our 
list vendor, they also need to come on these DAT tapes.

I really need something on NT that can read raw tapes just by 
specifying a record size and/or blocking factor--something similar 
to the dd utility under UNIX. Does anyone know of anything like 
that?

-- 
Michael Hayworth
Technology Director
Innovative TeleSolutions

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From: Michael Hayworth <73233.2014@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Reading raw DAT tape on NT?
Date: 1996/07/02
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