Subject: Need Dec 'BRU' for BSD unix (or help)

From: [email-masked] (Grant Basham)
Date: 13 Apr 1994 20:29:15 -0400

We need to get the data of a 1/4 inch cartridge tape.  The tape was written
with DEC BRU, an RSX (RT-11?) utility.  All I need to get We have a 1/4 inch
drive on a sun and I could see a few files, *.ftn, that could be half read,
but there are many files and some are quite complicated.  It would be more
than we can tackle to do it by hand.

Anyone got anything that will help in getting Fortran source code files off
the tape.  Lacking a bru2unix utility, anyone have bru on a box with a 1/4
inch drive and the ability to translate it to tar or VMS backup on something
standard (9-track, Exabyte, or DAT). Any help or ideas are greatly
appreciated.
-- 

  Grant Basham       (305)361-4026       University of Miami
  [email-masked]   RSMAS Computer Facility/Systems

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Jaspers-Fayer)
Date: 14 Apr 1994 12:55:23 GMT

Grant Basham ([email-masked]) wrote:
 >with DEC BRU....

"bru" format is not DEC's, but rather a 3rd party (can't remember the 
company), licenced by many vendors. If you can find an SGI machine
anywhere, you can DD the info off the tape, FTP it there and decode it with
their "bru" (comes with every SGI). If the file is not TOO humungous, (< 5Mb)
dd it off, compress it, and I can do it for you, and send it back in
compressed TAR format.

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 /PJ      "You can't grep dead trees"                       [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (David DiGiacomo)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 19:10:09 GMT

>dd it off, compress it, and I can do it for you, and send it back in

The BRU program that is available for Unix systems has nothing to do with
the RSX BRU program, which is extremely FILES-11 specific.

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From: [email-masked] (Randell Jesup)
Date: 18 Apr 94 21:32:10 GMT

[email-masked] (Peter Jaspers-Fayer) writes:
>company),

	Produced by Fred Fish.  I think his address is [email-masked], but
check recent articles in comp.sys.amiga.announce and you should find it.
If you can't find it, let me know and I'll look it up.

-- 
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 - Doug Mohney, in comp.arch

Randell Jesup, OS Group Head, Commodore Engineering.
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From: [email-masked] (Johnny Billquist)
Date: 19 Apr 1994 07:29:10 +0200

>than we can tackle to do it by hand.

BRU is for RSX.

>standard (9-track, Exabyte, or DAT). Any help or ideas are greatly

VMS systems can run BRU, if they have the proper software.
Apart from that, I'm afraid you're out of luck.

If you could get it down on a normal 1/2" tape, I could fix
it for you. I have an RSX system online, but it don't have any
1/4" drives.

If you're really desperate, maybe we can work something out anyway.
Just by doing a dd of the tape to disk, and then transferring it over
here, I do a dd back to 1/2" tape, mount the tape on the RSX system,
get the files out, and then send them to you. That should work, but
it will also take some time.

	Johnny
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