Thanks for the replies gang......The site that sent these tapes to us were
looking for something from their 3000 from back in 1993.  With these being
IBM tapes, that doesn't seem very likely ;-).....

Thanks!
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Johnson, Tracy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:20 AM
To: Dan Barnes; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] Reel-toRell- Tape Question
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I seem to recall there was some way to read ANSI labelled tapes with FCOPY
but that is all.

There may be a program in the Contributed Software Library.

BT


Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Dan Barnes
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:17 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Reel-toRell- Tape Question
>
>
> Hi -L Gang,
>
> We have a request from a remote site to ascertain what is on
> a set of reel-
> to-reel tapes.  They are unclear about what they want to find, but my
> primary issue is how to read the tapes.
>
> The tapes load with the message:
>
> 6:53/20/Vol TMAR01 (ANS) mounted on LDEV# 8
>
> Doing something generic like running TAPLIS.XLTOOLS.TELESUP
> will not read
> the tapes.  We have tried restoring a for sure non-existant
> file form the
> tape to force it to be read, to no avail.  I just tried issuing a file
> equate thinking a tape label was the answer:
>
> file t;dev=8;label=TMAR01,ANS
>
> nope, thanks for playing ;-).....
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> TIA,
> Dan
>
> p.s. I have been thru the archives, but did not find any
> leads there.....
>
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