MV-II Diags & Customer Diags

From: Paul Thompson <thompson_at_mail.athenet.net>
Date: Mon Mar 18 18:29:23 2002

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Gunther Schadow wrote:

> You don't need this. All you need is cptape, a nice little tool
> available from the TUHS archive (under PDP-11/Tools or so). This
> reads a tape and tells and copies the files into a directory (as
> file.###) and it tells you the block sizes of each (and writes
> those into a log file.) Then all you need to do is use sed(1) to
> create dd(1) commands to write those files back to tape. Works
> beautifully and was my rescue to get the MDM tape from TK70 to
> TK50 media.
>
Sounds essentially the same as itc, except itc will do this in one atomic
operation.
Received on Mon Mar 18 2002 - 18:29:23 GMT