Zane,
At 2:20 PM -0700 8/11/03, Zane H. Healy wrote:
   case 1) is
better).  I have the V7 Mayfield book (but haven't scanned it
 for the 'net yet) and wrote a program on the Mac to read the V7 (RDS-0)
 structure.  So it _can_ be done. 
So, is this Mac program something that will build on a standard UNIX system? 
 
High probability.  It was originally built as an MPW tool; MPW is very
Unix-like.  I could probably clean it up a bit and verify that it actually
works correctly under a few flavors of Unix.  [You mean someone else would
want to use this?  :-)  ]
John