Not that I know of. Tom's was called ansitape. On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 10:33 AM Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 6:16 AM Clem Cole wrote: > >> 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 >> > > How is that related to ansitar.c? > > Warner > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:55 AM Dave Horsfall wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2020, Warner Losh wrote: >>> >>> > 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. >>> >>> I think the loader also read just the first block, so woe betide you if >>> you used a labelled tape... >>> >>> If I recall, VOL1, HDR1, etc. >>> >>> -- Dave >> >> -- >> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual >> >