[VAX82A.ETAPE]AAAREADME.TXT


                                 submitted by:


                                  Mike Shefler
                             CONSAD Research Corp.
                              121 N. Highland Ave.
                             Pittsburgh, PA  15206

                                 (412) 363-5500



     1.  ETAPE

              is a general-purpose program for handling EBCDIC  tapes.   It
         allows  the  user  to  move  around  at will within the tape, send
         output to different files, specify different blocksizes and record
         lengths for different files on the tape, and combine multiple tape
         files into a single output file.  The  capability  of  writing  an
         EBCDIC tape from an ASCII file is also included.

              ETAPE removes all trailing blanks  from  tape  records  after
         reading them.  On output, records will be blank padded and blocked
         to create fixed length tape blocks.  A switch can be set  to  turn
         off  the EBCDIC translation and allow the translation (or writing)
         of ASCII tapes.

              See README.TXT for installation instructions.