110585 DISKMT, VARASC and DOSRT: Programs for Reading and Writing Magnetic Tapes Version: October 1982 Submitted by: Antti Virjo, Central University Hospital of Tampere, Finland Operating System: GAMMA-11, RT-11 V4.0(GAMMA-11 not necc.) Source Language: FORTRAN IV Memory Required: 12KW Hardware Required: Magnetic tape drive, e.g. TS-11 Keywords: Magnetic Tape Handler Abstract: The program DISKMT makes it possible to transfer RT-11 files to magtape 'MT' in a special FILES-11 format that can be read both with VAX/VMS and RT-11 operating systems and probably with IAS or other 'big' DEC operating systems. This tape format is ANSI standard format with two header labels and fixed length records (block length = record length = 512 bytes). For further documentation, see file DISKMT.DOC, which also contains other useful information on handling RT files on VAX, the use of VAX utility FLX etc. The program VARASC in turn is a program that allows one to convert a number of FILES-11 ASCII files to RT-11 ASCII files. Such file format is often used on ANSI standard magtapes (with variable length record file format) coming, for example, from VAX/VMS or IAS operating systems. For further documentation., see file DISKMT.DOC. The program DOSRT allows one to transfer files from a DOS format magtape to an RT disk (directory structured device). With DOSRT one can take a directory of the DOS tape, search for all files with a given name (including RT-11 wildcards * and %), and transfer files from a certain part of the tape. For further documentation, see file DOSRT.DOC. Media (Service Charge Code): One RX01 Diskette (KA) Format: RT-11, 600' Magnetic Tape (MA) Format: RT-11