John Burke wrote:
 > I've got a tape that was written on a non-MPE system using tar. I want to try
 >  to find out what is on it. How would I specify the command? The man page is
 >  not much help when it comes to specifying a tape drive on MPE. Assume for this
 >  example that the tape drive is ldev 40.

 From the Shell & Utilities Manual, Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation
Considerations:

-----begin-----
Direct Device Input/Output

MPE/iX supports device link files. As a result, you can use utilities like tar
and pax to read and write
tapes directly. Use the mknod command to create a device link to the desired
device destination. For
example,

        :MKNOD "/dev/TAPE7 c 0 7"

creates the device link file /dev/TAPE7. Now you can use the command

        tar -xvf /dev/TAPE7

in the shell.
-----end-----

Instead of tar xvf, which actually extracts all of the files on the tape, you
would want to use tvf to just see a listing of what's on the tape.
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