TUAAAA.HLP, April 1991 We produced literally thousands of magnetic tapes in ANSI, IBM OS SL, DUMPER, Tar, CPIO, and other formats, and received quite a few tapes (not to mention diskettes, cartridges, and other media) from other sites containing their contributions. Since we only had one or two computers for making and reading tapes, we had to do a lot of format conversion and wound up writing several programs for reading and writing "alien" tape formats and for copying tape-to-tape as fast as possible, since sometimes we had order backlogs of hundreds of tapes, and if we cut them one at a time we'd still be working on the backlog! This file lists the tape utility programs written by or found and used by the Kermit Project. The names all follow this format: TU. where: TU (for Tape Utilities) is the filename prefix for all the files, is a single letter telling what System the program runs on: C - Any system with a C compiler I - IBM mainframes U - Unix V - VAX/VMS is a single letter telling the Function of the program: R - Reads tapes W - Writes tapes B - Both reads and writes tapes P - A pre- or postprocessing program C - Copies one tape to another is a 2-character sequence specifying the kind of tape: AD - ANSI "D" Format (variable length records preceded by byte counts) BU - VAX/VMS BACKUP tapes OS - IBM EBCDIC OS Standard Label tapes, VB format (variable block) XX - Any kind of tape AO - ANSI "D" format or OS Standard Label VB format TA - UNIX tar format T2 - UNIX tar format (a different program) is a 1-to-3 character sequence specifying the type of file: ASM - Assembly language C - C language program source HLP - Help file (plain text) NR - Nroff text formatter source (for UNIX man page) Here's a list of the programs: Kermit Original Name Name Contributor Purpose TUCPAD ANSID Columbia U. Unpack ANSI-D records (on disk) TUIROS OSTAPE Columbia U. Read on OS tape on VM/CMS systems TUIRAO SPROSC John Chandler Read OS and ANSI tapes on VM/CMS TUUBAD ANSITAR ??? Read/Write ANSI tapes on UNIX TUUCXX COPYTAPE Columbia U. Copy tapes on UNIX systems TUURBU VMSBU Monash U. Read VMS Backup tapes on UNIX systems TUUROS OSTAPE Columbia U. Read OS SL tapes on UNIX systems TUUWAO CUTAPE Columbia U. Write OS or ANSI tapes on UNIX TUVRTA RTAR ??? Read UNIX tar tapes on VAX/VMS TUVRT2 TAR2VMS Queen's U. Read UNIX tar tapes on VAX/VMS TUVWTA WTAR ??? Write UNIX tar tapes on VAX/VMS It's probably a good idea to rename the files from their distribution names to their original names before building and using them. (End of TUAAAA.HLP)