--- Original message from mag : ---
> Hi,
>
> I have a tape that I'd like to store to a disk file. I don't want to actually
> restore the files to the system, I only want to kind of create an image of the
> file on disk. How do I do that?
>
> thanks

this is more of a question than an answer...

does MPE have the Unix "dd" command or an equivalent?

on Linux I could make a disk image of a tape using a command such as...

dd bs=265b if=/dev/st0 of=/tmp/tape.img



--- Original message from Stan Sieler : ---
> Free: TAPECOPY
> http://www.allegro.com/software/hp30....html#TAPECOPY
> (IIRC, there was at least one other free program, with the same limitations as
> TAPECOPY)

is the source code for the TAPECOPY program available?


thanks,
Ed

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