From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Determining what was on a tape back in the day
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:51:00 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711190848150.780@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ABAE77A1-36C8-446E-9642-9CFDA610A217@ronnatalie.com>
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On Sat, 18 Nov 2017, Ronald Natalie wrote:
> We commonly used “ar” to write DECtapes (TU58) back in the day. If the
> first block has a list of filenames, I’m betting that’s what it is!
Or ye olde "tp" format? 'Twas the precursor of "tar", and I dimly recall
that it was wriiten for the Ducktapes (our old 11/40 had just about
everything except that).
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2017-11-18 18:34 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-18 18:37 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-18 18:40 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-18 21:51 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-11-18 21:07 ` Will Senn
2017-11-18 22:53 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-19 1:47 ` Will Senn
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2017-11-20 19:42 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-20 17:00 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-20 16:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-20 17:37 ` Will Senn
2017-11-19 20:46 Steve Simon
2017-11-19 18:45 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-19 17:49 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-19 18:35 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-19 13:41 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-19 14:55 ` Clem cole
2017-11-19 21:00 ` William Corcoran
2017-11-19 21:19 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-19 22:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-19 22:38 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-19 22:40 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-19 23:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-20 1:02 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-20 1:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-20 18:12 ` Random832
2017-11-20 23:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-20 23:35 ` William Pechter
2017-11-21 0:01 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-20 19:02 ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-19 14:55 ` Will Senn
2017-11-18 19:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-18 21:32 ` Will Senn
2017-11-18 21:49 ` Warren Toomey
2017-11-18 16:39 Will Senn
2017-11-18 18:57 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-18 20:03 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-18 22:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-18 23:16 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-18 23:35 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-19 0:35 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-19 0:42 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-19 1:04 ` Clem cole
2017-11-19 16:20 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-20 2:33 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-11-18 21:26 ` Will Senn
2017-11-18 22:39 ` Clem Cole
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