Z312 VAX Tape Handling Utilities

OBSOLETE

Please note that this routine has been obsoleted in CNL 219. Users are advised not to use it any longer and to replace it in older programs. No maintenance for it will take place and it will eventually disappear.
Suggested replacement: None

VAXPAP contains a set of VAX/VMS utilities for tape handling.

Structure:

VAX commands

Usage:

This package contains the following commands:

EINIT

- initialise a tape with a label encoded in EBCDIC.

LABELDUMP

- dump the VOL1 label of a tape.

SETUP

- mount a tape with device allocation and label checking.

STAGE

- input and output tape staging.

STAGEQ

- auxiliary program to STAGE.

STAGECLN

- utility program for cleaning the staging disk(s).

TAPECOPY

- tape copy program.

WRTAPE

- write disk file to tape with ASCII or EBCDIC labels.

XTAPE

- examine tape contents (tape dump).

Usage:

See Long Write-up.
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