[TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 2

Madcrow Maxwell madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 11 22:44:04 AEST 2006


Hmm, I could create that file by "dd if=/dev/zero of=filesep bs=1
count=4" and then insert one copy of filesep between every tape file
and put two at the end. If it works, I'll post the script in
gratitude. Thanks.

Mike "Madcrow" K.

On 8/10/06, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
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> >  I tried doing things by hand,
> > running maketape and then "cat"ing the file it created along with all
> > the other  files "dd"ed by the script into a single file.
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> You need to put file marks between everything logically 'dd'-ed
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> In the .tap format, file marks are four bytes of 0.
> End of tape should have two sets of file marks (eight bytes of 0)
>
> FWIW, I sent warren a .tap image of Ultrix 2.0. Never heard anything from
> him about it.
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