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>> /* ---------- "looking for a program to read/write" ---------- */
>> I am wondering if anyone knows of a program, commercial or on the net, that
>> can read/write 9-track tapes that were written on an IBM mainframe using 
>> a IBM utility  called IEBCOPY.  I don't know much about this format except
>> that we get tapes that we read with IEBCOPY on a mainframe and that I will
>> need to write a program for the workstations that we are about to get if I 
>> can not find one.
>> 
>> Thanks for any help or advice.
>> 
>> John Morey

Sounds like another job for {sound of trumpets} dd(1).

You should be able to use a dd command like:

	dd if=/dev/{tapedevice} of={outputfile} conv=ascii,unblock ibs=80

The ibs (input block size) parameter should be adjusted to the correct
record size of the data.

(We use IEBCOPY to dup our backups to IBM squares.{or some such IBM utility})

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