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Aucbvax.5527 fa.info-vax utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Tue Dec 22 21:32:44 1981 Re: VAX-VMS Tape Handling Facility >From FONER@MIT-AI Tue Dec 22 21:24:28 1981 We have a similar program at my site, called TAPECOPY, written in FORTRAN. It's been around for ages (since our VAX/VMS 1.60 system, maybe since (gasp!) 1.50).

It works okay for some tapes... it's also got a bug, though: when reading variable-length records, if it doesn't find a <CR> between where the last one was and the end of its buffer, it throws away the record from the last <CR> to the end of the buffer it read... but after fixing that it works well for variable-length stuff, too, as well as fixed-length stuff. It also does ASCII <=> EBCDIC translation. If anybody has a program with a similar bug, it's probably the same program.

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