[TUHS] mag tapes

Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Wed Sep 2 13:27:58 AEST 2026


Ron Natalie wrote:
> Once you have the raw records decoding the CPIO is pretty trivial.

You'd think so.  But I have come across several cpio tapes that wouldn't
decode with a regular modern cpio.  So I wrote this.

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/tools-for-unusual-tape-formats/blob/master/cpio.c


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