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ansi standard labeled tapes and COPY

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From: ALAN
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1987 19:08
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I get a few tapes each month from and IBM.  The people at the other site
are nice enough to put the tape in an ansi standard format.  In this
format I can simply mount the tape and do directories and copies from
the tape to disk.  My problem is that any file that has a file name with
no extention comes up with quotes around it.  If the file has an
extention it doesn't.  For example, if a do a DIR MSA0: on one of these
tapes that has a file with an extention and one without, I get the
following:
 "DA8244"
 DA.S9042PSN

The copy command allows you to use quotes, so that's not the problem.
The problem is that I can't do a COPY MSA0:*.* *.* to bring down all of
the files to disk.  I have to copy each one individualy and rename it to
the same thing without the quotes.  With a tape with 30 or 40 files it
takes for ever to bring them all down.  Any suggestions?

Alan Sutter (ALAN@FANDM.BITNET)
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster, PA  17604, USA
(717) 291-4005
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Subject: ansi standard labeled tapes and COPY
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