This may save somebody a bit of time.


	We at AAC used to have an HP3000 computer and had a large

	stock of "Backup" tapes written by the HP3000 over a period
	
	of years. To avoid having to reload this material to the HP and

	write to tape as unlabled ASCII files or some equally tedious

	procedure, the following rather crude program was produced. With

	negligable skills on the new VAX.

		The program RESTORE reads HP3000 backup tapes and recovers

	all the ASCII files. These are written to VAX disk files with the

	original HP file names. Files that are not ASCII are discarded.

		No doubt the program could be made a lot more efficent but

	it served its purpose and all the required data and source code
	
	was recovered before any need was felt to streamline the program.

		The file RESTORE.COM mounts the tape and runs the program

	Any other comments are surely superfluous.


		Submitted by:   Peter Leggatt

				Geophysical Research Department

				Anglo American Corp of South Africa

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