[TUHS] how to extract tap file?

[TUHS] how to extract tap file?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

How to to extract a ".tap" file?  What tools?

I found http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/tap manual but I haven't found 
corresponding tool (even in tuhs source code archive).

The file I am trying to extract is 
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/BSD/BSD4.1_bootable.tap.gz (12 
MB).  I can view some of the plain text in it.

I tried historical ar (which I have used for some other 1970's images), 
restore, and tar. file(1) says it is a "Maple help database".

  Jeremy C. Reed

echo 'EhZ[h ^jjf0%%h[[Zc[Z_W$d[j%Xeeai%ZW[ced#]dk#f[d]k_d%' | \
  tr            '#-~'            '\-.-{'

[TUHS] how to extract tap file?

[random832]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013, at 20:01, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> How to to extract a ".tap" file?  What tools?
> 
> I found http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/tap manual but I haven't found 
> corresponding tool (even in tuhs source code archive).

The tool is called "tp".

[TUHS] how to extract tap file?

[random832]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013, at 20:01, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> How to to extract a ".tap" file?  What tools?
> 
> I found http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/tap manual but I haven't found 
> corresponding tool (even in tuhs source code archive)

sorry, my previous email was wrong, tap isn't the same as tp.

AncientFS has a tap driver for FUSE:
https://github.com/macfuse/macfuse/tree/master/filesystems/unixfs/ancientfs
- you might be able to use that directly or use it to get information
about the format. I could swear I found a copy of the original archive
program for it at some point, but I don't remember where.

[TUHS] how to extract tap file?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> How to to extract a ".tap" file?  What tools?

I forgot that I asked this before and was answered off-list pointing to 
a non-existent URL which I found archived elsewhere:

http://marc.info/?l=classiccmp&m=104968973930145

I may try some of this.

> I found http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/tap manual but I haven't found 
> corresponding tool (even in tuhs source code archive).
> 
> The file I am trying to extract is 
> http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/BSD/BSD4.1_bootable.tap.gz (12 
> MB).  I can view some of the plain text in it.
> 
> I tried historical ar (which I have used for some other 1970's images), 
> restore, and tar. file(1) says it is a "Maple help database".

[TUHS] how to extract tap file?

[Warren Toomey]

Have a look in http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Tools/Tapes/
at the tp tools. I know I wrote some C programs to deal with tap, but on the road so can't see exactly where I put them.
Cheers, Warren

"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
>> How to to extract a ".tap" file?  What tools?
>
>I forgot that I asked this before and was answered off-list pointing to
>
>a non-existent URL which I found archived elsewhere:
>
>http://marc.info/?l=classiccmp&m=104968973930145
>
>I may try some of this.
>
>> I found http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/tap manual but I haven't
>found 
>> corresponding tool (even in tuhs source code archive).
>> 
>> The file I am trying to extract is 
>> http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/BSD/BSD4.1_bootable.tap.gz
>(12 
>> MB).  I can view some of the plain text in it.
>> 
>> I tried historical ar (which I have used for some other 1970's
>images), 
>> restore, and tar. file(1) says it is a "Maple help database".
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