FTCOPY USER'S GUIDE - J. A. Johnson - 30 Sept 1981

Purpose:  This utility copies a foreign (unlabelled or foreign labelled)
          tape onto either another foreign tape or an ANSI labelled tape.

Description:  FTCOPY consists of a command procedure and a FORTRAN program
	which allocate and mount two tapes on specified drives.  The 
	output tape is an exact copy of the input and will accept data
	in any readable format.

Usage:	Enter @FTCOPY after which the user is prompted for all necessary
	inputs as follows:

	INPUT DEVICE: enter the tape device of your choice, e.g. MTA0
	ENTER DENSITY (800,1600,6250): enter the appropriate number.
		Note that the device specified must support the density
		chosen, e.g. MTA0 does not support 6250 bpi.
	OUTPUT DEVICE: enter another tape device as above.
	ENTER DENSITY (800,1600,6250): enter the appropriate number.
	STANDARD LABEL? (Y or N): specify Y (yes) or N (no) as to whether
		the output tape should have a label or not.  If Y is
		specified, the following information will be requested:
		_Label: specify the info for the tape label (required).
		_Log_Name: specify a logical name (optional).

	Standard VMS messages will inform the user whether the tapes
	were properly allocated and mounted or not.  If so, the following
	prompts will ensue:

	COPY FILES [C] OR QUIT [Q]?: A response of Q causes an additional
		tapemark (end-of-file) to be written on the output tape,
		the program terminated, and the tapes to be unloaded.
		A response of C causes the following prompt to appear:
	ENTER NUMBER OF FILES TO COPY:  enter the appropriate number.  
		When the specified number of files have been copied,  the
		COPY FILES... message above will reappear.  At this time,
		the user has the option of terminating or copying 
		additional files.

	If two consecutive tapemarks are encountered on the input tape,
	the program will halt and issue the following:

	CONSECUTIVE EOFS READ, POSSIBLE END OF VOLUME
	ENTER PROCEED [P] OR QUIT [Q]:  consecutive tapemarks quite often
		are used to signify the end of logical tape (no more data).
		If Q is entered, termination ensues as above.  If P is
		entered, the copy process is continued.

Privileges Required: MOUNT, LOG_IO