Stan Sieler ([log in to unmask]) wrote: : : One possible alternative. A program called TAPECOPY is occationally : : available from HP. It's an unsupported utility, but can be had from : : some kindly SEs, PICS Engineers, and other kindly souls. TAPECOPY and STORCOPY were HP unsupported utilities supplied with the TELESUP account traditionally deposited on systems for support reasons. I believe they were only available on MPEV (not iX) systems and both are CMPROGs. While TAPECOPY could handle some other variants, STORCOPY was strictly oriented towards CMSTORE format tapes. I've had some good luck with these tools but ONLY with CMSTORE. NMSTORE tapes can have records on it with a width > 16K words which no utility using FOPEN style intrinsics (as TAPECOPY and STORCOPY do) can handle. There are no plans to change or update these tools. Unfortunately the only answer I know of for NMSTORE is third party solutions. -- Mike Ryan @ Hewlett Packard Co. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------