[PLUG] Tools for reading Prime Magsav/Magrst or other strange data tapes

[Colin Kuskie]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:10:27PM -0800, Ed Sawicki wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:35, David Mandel wrote:
> 
> > I need to read a tape or part of a tape that was created on a Prime
> > computer using Magsav/Magrst.  I think they created the tape in about
> > 1990.  I would hate to use dd and write C programs to convert the data,
> > but if need be ...
> 
> or tools like awk

Perl.  If you need to munge data, then perl is perfect for this.

Colin