[TUHS] vi in v7

[Clem Cole]

Not that I know of.  Tom's was called ansitape.

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 10:33 AM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 6:16 AM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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>> Dave those are ANSI tape labels.  Unix does not use them    DEC did
>> although was inconsistent with the use particularly WRT HDR2 records.  Tom
>> Quarles (of spice 3 fame) wrote probably the best version for Unix to deal
>> with them.  I believe I gave a copy but it will be in BSD 4.1 maybe 4.2
>> compiler syntax. I'll ask him if he ever updated it. Clem
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> How is that related to ansitar.c?
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> Warner
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> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:55 AM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2020, Warner Losh wrote:
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>>> >       Weren't V5/6/7/etc distributed as bootable tapes?  Set the switch
>>> >       register to point to the tape instead of the disk...
>>> >
>>> > Yes. They were. We have V6 and V7 tapes (and a V5 disk image). Likely
>>> > earlier versions likely did too.  What I'd meant was that 2.8BSD is
>>> the
>>> > first 2BSD that had a bootable tape.
>>>
>>> Ah, my mistake.
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>>> I think the loader also read just the first block, so woe betide you if
>>> you used a labelled tape...
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>>> If I recall, VOL1, HDR1, etc.
>>>
>>> -- Dave
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>> --
>> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
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