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[Danny R. Brown]

On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Steven M. Schultz wrote:

> Danny -
> 
> > From: "Danny R. Brown" <sysyphus at crl.com>
> > 
> > Now, I have several components of 2.11, and I'm trying to build a
> > bootable TK50 tape to install from. The problem is that I cannot
> 
> 	Hmmm - does RT-11 have the ability/utilities to write 512 byte
> 	records "bits as is" to tape?  No labeling, no nothing.
                      ------- snip ------ 
> 	Can you, using RT-11 do the equivalent of:
> 
> 		cat mtboot mtboot boot > file
> 		dd if=file of=tapedrive bs=512
> 
  First, I want to complement you on the excellent docs for 2.11BSD.
  
  Second, I want to flame the people at DEC who decided that the
  TK-50 MUST have a directory of some sort, and that various commands
  which will work with other mag-tape devices will NOT work on the
  TK-50 (under RT-11).
  I am now going to plan B. I am going to scrounge up a proper reel-
  to -reel magtape.
  Anybody know where I can find one ? :=)
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