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 >