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By: Stephen Dennis <afflictedunlivablejubilant@...>
Description:
This scans, creates, extracts uncompressed AWS tape files. JSON configuration is created and used to coordinate the above. Supports conversion between EBCDIC (CP037, CP273, CP277, and CP285) and Unicode (UTF-8). Binary pass-through. AWs creation generates a RESTORE.JCL starting point for MVS 3.8j. Built for Linux. Dockerfile included. Tests for F, FB, V, VS, VB, and VBS formats. Unix files can be NL-terminated text, fixed-length binary, or RDW-prefixed variable length binary.
I needed this to create multi-file tapes with different LRECL/BLKSIZE attributes. I tried to understand and test the F, V, VS, VB, and VBS formats as well. Ad-hoc testing on extracting files from AWS files out and AWS files created by TK5. Bugs happen.
No warranty for any use is provided. It's not hard to add new code pages, but no promises.
