From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: luvisi@andru.sonoma.edu (Andru Luvisi)
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:53:02 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [pups] Making a TK50 2.11BSD boot tape for an 11/73
In-Reply-To: <20030116094037.B28194@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301160744570.11570-100000@gladen>

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, David Evans wrote:
[snip]
> > Use the maketape programm from the archive. dd will not work proper.
>
>   That's truly weird.

maketape will pad each of "mtboot", "mtboot", and "boot" out to an even
length of 512 bytes.  The "cat | dd" method will not pad the first two
out.

I discovered this while trying to create a bootable tape image for simh.
I needed to emulate the maketape behavior for it to work.

Andru
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