From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:51:00 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Determining what was on a tape back in the day In-Reply-To: References: <20171118183451.CF48218C0F0@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: 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). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."