Tape dumping programs for Unix/Linux...

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Thu May 2 14:34:36 2002

At 12:06 PM 5/2/2002 -0700, Stan Sieler wrote:
>Darn...sounds like a subset of what I use. I'd be interested
>in knowing more about TAP (with an eye towards adopting use of it),
>and would suggest some possibly missing features might be:
> - ability to flag if the current tape record had a
> recovered read error (obviously, not all hardware/OS's support
> getting that information)
> - ability to flag if a particular tape record had a hard error
> while reading it

I've always thought the classic computer collector community
needed a tool and meta-format like this for every format of
media (floppies, tapes, MO, Zip/Jaz, hard disks, CDs, etc.).

I think there's tremendous value in an automated tool that would
"sniff" a tape without necessarily copying all the files to disk.

- John
Received on Thu May 02 2002 - 14:34:36 BST