Marshall I. Medoff ([log in to unmask]) wrote: : Help! : I have a file created on a Unix machine that I need to read on my : MPE/iX 5.0 machine. The file is on a DDS Tape. It was written using : a specific application program not using tar, cpio or dd. The logical : record is 61 bytes with the 61st byte being a line feed (0Ah). I have : tried everything in my arsenal (COBOL) to read this tape. Can anyone : offer a suggestion as to what settings to use for file equations, file : open options, and file access options? I am also not afraid to use : POSIX if someone were to offer a suggestion in that direction. It sounds like your tape is in a simple record format. The FCOPY command should be able to handle this for you. You will need a file equation to make FCOPY talk to the tape drive and the target disk file should have rec=-60,,f,ascii. I have never done this myself, so I provide no warranty on this advice. From the shell, you may also be able to do this by creating a device link from /dev/tape to your tape drive. Then you could probably do cat /dev/tape >myfile Again, I haven't done this and I don't know if that's the proper idiom. Steve