ETAPE, UTILITIES, Reads EBCDIC ASCII and GCOS MagTapes ETAPE is a general-purpose program for handling EBCDIC, ASCII, and Honeywell GCOS BCD tapes. It allows the user to move around at will within the tape, send output to different files, specify different blocksizes and record lengths for different files on the tape, and combine multiple tape files into a single output file. Special translation can be performed on tapes which have embedded packed decimal, floating-point, or binary fields. The capability of writing EBCDIC or ASCII tapes from VMS ASCII files is also included. EBCDIC tapes can be written in FB of VB mode, and may span several reels if necessary. ETAPE removes all trailing blanks from tape records after reading them. On output, records will be blank padded and blocked to create fixed length tape blocks. A switch can be set to turn off the EBCDIC translation and allow the translation (or writing) of ASCII tapes. Installation ============ ETAPE is comprised of the following files: AAAREADME.TXT This file ETAPE.CLD Command language for ETAPE ETAPE.FOR Source program & subroutines ETAPE.HLP Help file for the program ETAPE.OBJ Object from ETAPE (for re-linking) (Not distributed via MAILSERV) ETAPE_HELP_ENTRY.RNH UNH help file (not edited to be general) (This file is not up to date, but if anyone would like to fix it up, I'd love to have a copy -- Dale) ETAPE_INCLUDE.FOR Include file for fortran code SAMPLE.TRANS A sample directive file for special translation Note: in binary distributions (i.e. NOT Mailserv), the following files are also included for those folks that don't have a FORTRAN compiler. ETAPE.OBJ_VAX ETAPE.EXE_VAX ETAPE.OBJ_AXP ETAPE.EXE_AXP The following procedure is used to build ETAPE: $ FORT ETAPE (VAX) $ LINK ETAPE (AXP) $ LINK/NONATIVE ETAPE $ COPY ETAPE.EXE SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]ETAPE.EXE $ LIB/HELP/REPL/LOG SYS$HELP:HELPLIB ETAPE $ SET COMMAND ETAPE Known Errors / Limitations ========================== To use ETAPE, a user must possess LOG_IO and PHY_IO privilege or ETAPE must be installed with those privileges. I'm sure there are bugs, but I don't know what they are. If you find one, please let me know. Special thanks for finding (and fixing) bugs go to: Bill Costa - University of New Hampshire John W. Miller - Indiana University of Pennsylvania Rollo Ross - University of South Australia Rick Millhollin - University of Oregon Don Vickers Please direct all comments, criticisms, and especially praise to: Dale Miller University of Arkansas at Little Rock Data Center NS204 2801 S. University Ave. Little Rock, AR 72204-1099 (501) 569-8714 DOMILLER@UALR.EDU