Reading/writing IBM 9 track tapes under UNIX

[Dmitry V. Volodin]

In article <1990Oct1.174354.22980 at nimbus3.uucp> djs at nimbus3.UUCP (Doug) writes:
>We have a 9 track tape drive made by Qualstar.  It is attached to a 386
>PC running System V Release 3.2.2.  We have been given a 9 track tape
>written on an IBM 3090 in something called "IBM Labeled" format.  It also
>says LRECL=1024 and BLKSIZE=1024 on the label.  No combination of dd
>options produced meaningful input.  Does anyone know how to read/write
>these tapes under UNIX?

There's a program on Usenix tapes called ANSITAR. Extremely helpful.
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