[TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 2

Madcrow Maxwell madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com
Sat Aug 12 01:15:45 AEST 2006


I'm using SuSE Linux 10.1 to build the tape image.

On 8/11/06, e.stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
> what system are you using to write the tape ?
>
> Madcrow Maxwell wrote:
> > 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:
> >>
> >>
> >>>  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.
> >> You need to put file marks between everything logically 'dd'-ed
> >>
> >> 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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