Marco asks: > Does anyone know of a program that can be used to validate a NMSTORE or > CMSTORE tape done on a DAT drive? I am running a 967 on MPE/ix 5.0. As various people mentioned, there are free utilities to check an NM STORE tape, and there are free utilities to check a CM STORE tape. But, <plug>, as far as I know, there's only one utility that can automatically check *both* CM and NM STORE tapes, and dump tapes, and SPOOK tapes, and tar tapes, and... TINDEX from Lund Performance Solutions </plug> Or, since I like to provide useful free information whenever I do plug something...my TAPEDIR program from the CSL will take your tape, and analyze it if it is a CM STORE, and if it is an NM STORE it will automatically do a RESTORE *NMSTORE;@[log in to unmask]@;LISTDIR ... not quite the same as VALIDATE, but better than nothing! -- Stan Sieler [log in to unmask] http://www.allegro.com/sieler.html