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
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> 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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