Hi Bruce,

> I'm lookin to find out what options I have to read a 4MM tape written in
> ascii from an HP/3K system running MPE, using the HPSTORE utility.  I've got

The simplest option, by far, is to not even try reading a STORE tape on
a system other than an HP 3000.  HP has not documented the format.

Our company could probably provide a utility that could read it on HP-UX,
but the cheapest & quickest solution is to generate a non-STORE-format
tape in the first place!

You could use "tar" on MPE to create a tar tape, or
"dd" to copy the data to the tape in a straightfoward manner, and
then use "tar" or "dd" on a Unix machine.

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