Jules Richardson wrote:
Look for "tapetools" on the web. It copies
the tape into a container
file, preserving all blocksizes, so you can even duplicate it to another
tape (9track,8mm,4mm,dlt,...).
Includes also a tapedump utility, so you can have a look what's inside
I'm not familiar with "tapetools", and Google only turned up references
to an HP proprietary program. Were you perhaps thinking of "tapeutils"?
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/tapeutils/