On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:29:51 +0200, GADI_B wrote: >Does anyone know of a way to create the AWStape file directly from a file >on DASD without writing to tape first?
The AWSSL utility by Reed H. Petty is what you are looking for. It's distributed with Hercules and is documented in: http://www.hercules-390.org/HerculesUserReference.pdf AWSSL is also available from the CBT tape website: http://www.cbttape.org/awstape.htm Regards, Roger Bowler http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rbowler Hercules "the people's mainframe" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

