Please help! Got a tape from a client that I am having trouble reading. I want to try my best to figure out how to read before I bug them. Rumor is, its from a mainframe but I am not positive. Looks like variable length to me, but I am really not sure about that either. At this point, I would settle for just dumping the raw data and worrying about deciphering it later.
When I tcopy the tape I see:
tcopy: Tape File: 1; Records: 1 to 3; Size: 80.
tcopy: File: 1; End of File after: 3 Records, 240 Bytes.
tcopy: Tape File: 2; Record: 1; Size 25444.
tcopy: Tape File: 2; Record: 2; Size 26116.
-------------------continues-------------------->
tcopy: Tape File: 2; Record: 26427; Size 25754.
tcopy: Tape File: 2; Record: 26428; Size 27152.
tcopy: File: 2; End of File after: 26428 Records, 700457878 Bytes.
tcopy: Tape File: 3; Records: 1 to 2; Size: 80.
tcopy: File: 3; End of File after: 2 Records, 160 Bytes.
tcopy: The end of the tape is reached.
tcopy: The total tape length is 700458278 bytes.
Can someone make any suggestions?
When I tcopy the tape I see:
tcopy: Tape File: 1; Records: 1 to 3; Size: 80.
tcopy: File: 1; End of File after: 3 Records, 240 Bytes.
tcopy: Tape File: 2; Record: 1; Size 25444.
tcopy: Tape File: 2; Record: 2; Size 26116.
-------------------continues-------------------->
tcopy: Tape File: 2; Record: 26427; Size 25754.
tcopy: Tape File: 2; Record: 26428; Size 27152.
tcopy: File: 2; End of File after: 26428 Records, 700457878 Bytes.
tcopy: Tape File: 3; Records: 1 to 2; Size: 80.
tcopy: File: 3; End of File after: 2 Records, 160 Bytes.
tcopy: The end of the tape is reached.
tcopy: The total tape length is 700458278 bytes.
Can someone make any suggestions?