On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:19:13 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can someone help me narrow the search for conversion utilities? >Do any run on z/OS? Most certainly. Search the CBT file list for "AWS" and "HET". >Do I need to explore the H-word? I should have recalled that >such a facility existed in that universe. Probably not, though it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. There are several AWS utilities on CBT that run fine on z/OS that have no inherent connection to non z/OS platforms. Keep in mind that we are talking about representing an arbitrary physical tape as an image in a file, and where that file lives is unimportant. As it happens, the AWS format was invented for an OS/2 based system, so e.g. it uses Intel-style little endian integers, but it's perfectly processable on any platform. I have in the past written trivial REXX code to manipulate the files, and you could probably write a UNIX shell script to do the same. Also, probably because of the original platform, the image file is stream oriented, i.e. does not have or require record boundaries. This of course turns out to be a very good thing for most purposes. There is a description of the actual AWS format by Sam Golob at http://www.cbttape.org/awstape.htm . There are also at least two Windows based AWS browsers/extractors out there. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
