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Subject: Re: [TUHS] a possible source for 4.1BSD tapes
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> "taperead" in http://github.com/brouhaha/tapeutils can extract files
> from a tape image.

The format is very simple: a 32-bit little-endian record length,
followed by that many bytes, followed by the length again for
integrity checking.  A record length of zero is a file mark.

-- Richard


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