Phil asks:

> I've been given a 9-track tape in ascii format from a provider to load on
>  our hp3000. I need to restore this data onto my hp3000 and then manipulate
>  the file. It is not in HP store format.  Is there anything I can do to get
>  this data to the hp3000?

FCOPY was the program designed to to exactly this. You do need to know
however some basic information about the data stored on the tape. Is in ASCII
or EBCDIC? What's the blocking factor? And what's the record length? And do
you need to skip over a certain number of files or records first?

Once you determine all of this, FCOPY will let you read the file with equal
measures of aplomb, elan and verve.

Wirt Atmar