19 Oct
2006
19 Oct
'06
2:23 p.m.
On Thursday 19 October 2006 17:13, Richard wrote:
In article
<a06230902c15d8d43781e(a)[131.215.234.40]>0]>,
"John A. Dundas III" <dundas at caltech.edu> writes:
Booting an OS tape is one instance.... There are plenty more, for
example when the block (record) size of the tape is significant for
delimiting different parts of data.
Pat
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If on the other hand the files are more important
(than being able
to recreate the tape exactly), [...]
What would require an exact tape image, as opposed to files and their
contents?