> On Dec 14, 2015, at 10:21 PM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote: > > Just finished reading a 9 track tape made with IBM CMS in its dumpfile format. > > Why on earth--or might I say, what idiot--designed this format? First the > file data in a series of records, *then* the file name and other metadata. > > Anyone know of a DOS/Windows/Unix utility to unravel one of these things? I > don't feel too much like coding for a single tape. > Use VM/370 under Hercules to read in the dumpfile tape and write it back out in either AWS or HET format.
TTFN - Guy