Dan Barnes wrote:

>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
>....
>Any ideas ?
>
First, since the tape AVRs we know that it is not in some compressed
mode that your drive does not
read. This is good. Second since they went to the trouble to write a
label on the tape as TMAR01,
one might guess that this stands for Tape MARch of 2001.

To see what is on the tape we can dump some of it:

file t;dev=8;label=TMAR01,ANS
fcopy from=*t;to;char;hex

Looking at the data dump we might be able to:
1. Pick out certain fields, Names, Vendors, Parts, Credit Card #s
2. Look for repeating records that would give a valid record length
3. Look for blocks of records that would give the blocking factor


Mike Hornsby
Beechglen Development Inc
Support for HP3000s since 1988
513-922-0509

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