Re: Reading raw DAT tape on NT?

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From: pball
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 00:00

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I think Tapedisk RAW has exactly what you are looking for, from
Tapedisk Corp.  Their number is 1-715-235-3388.  Good luck.

Michael Hayworth <73233.2014@CompuServe.COM> wrote:

>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?

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Subject: Re: Reading raw DAT tape on NT?
Date: 1996/07/04
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