VMS TAR tape readers and writers These are the TAR handlers you should generally use! They will read TAR tapes into a directory, creating subdirectories as needed and massaging filenames to be legal in VMS V4.x. TARREAD Usage: $mount/foreign/block=10240/record=512 mta0: tape tape $assign mta0: tape $tarrdr:==$TARREAD $tarread -xv The tape will be read and files moved to a VMS directory tree starting in your current directory tree. Tapes with blocks up to 10240 can be read as is. The file can easily be edited to read larger tapes. TARWRITE usage: Mount the tape the same as for TARREAD. Assign the logical TAPE to it. Define TARWRITE symbol to run TARWRITE $tarwrite -cv [filespec,filespec,,,] e.g. $tarwrite -cv [...]*.* to write a tree to tape in TAR format.