This page desribes the publicly available software which unpacking AOFTM disk and magnetic tape data for piping to user programs. The UNIX script aoftm_unpack reads AOFTM data from tape or UNIX file in 2 bit or 8 bit form, converts to single bytes, and outputs the data stream to stdout. ... It reads the AOFTM header file (in FITS format) and outputs an ascii header file. ao_unpack.c . ... The script tape.inspect will scan through a tape, reading all the header files and reporting the contents. ...