Dave, this leads to a couple more questions...
Is Bloktap part of the R6 / CE distribution?? I can sort of
understand it being there if the source is available so that
someone might fix it.
While I know from the posts that the messed up tapes "leave
garbage at the end of the file",? are the messed up tapes
worth "fixing"?? Is the tape content available in valid formats
elsewhere?
Harold Grovesteen
On 4/1/24 08:24, Dave Wade wrote:
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Harold,
After
looking back through the archives, it seems these were
created with Bloktap which doesn¡¯t work on R6.
Dave
?
?
Just curiosity
I realize there seems to be some heritage involved in all of
this, but does anyone know which tool creates the garbage?
Is there a tool that removes the unexpected content from the
AWS tape file?
Harold Grovesteen
On 4/1/24 00:03, Dave Wade wrote:
Mark,
I¡¯ll
check these later, but many AWS tapes end in errors
because one of the tools used to create them leaves
garbage at the end of the file.
Dave
?
?
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 02:39 AM, Dave
Wade wrote:
I imagine from a real tape which came
with the tapes used to build the original system. From
what I remember, and it's a fuzzy memory, the process
was that each site that received a copy agreed to make
two copies for other sites. So most sites had a copy of
the tape.
I was scanning through the WATERLOO
tapes which I got from here. WATERLOO2 and WATERLOO6 end
with errors. Does any one have an alternate source for
these?
?... Mark S.
