Tape dumping programs for Unix/Linux..."

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Thu May 2 11:59:49 2002

> > And EOF is represented by two consecutive zero-length records.
>
> Thanks, I've been curious about this spec for a while and had little
> luck turning up a concise description of the format.
>
> One question, if I want to write multiple consecutive EOFs (I'm
> thinking of classic HP3000 MPE :STORE format tapes here) do I write
> two zero-length records for each, or do I "compress out" the
> zero-length records in the middle? Say I want to write two EOFs,
> do I write {0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0} or
> {0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0}? I'm hoping it's the former.

My first attempt at understanding the format was wrong (see my
comment re intuition).

I would side with you on it being the former, but that's
my intuition speaking to me...

;)
Received on Thu May 02 2002 - 11:59:49 BST