21 May
2016
21 May
'16
6:25 p.m.
On May 21, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Rod Smallwood
<rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote:
Second point:
The RSTS install tape is just a bunch of files.
There's nothing requiring image copy to deal with funny file formats
No, that is not accurate. An install tape (for V9 or later) is a bootable tape with a
backup set on it. Bootable tapes have DOS labels, but backupsets have ANSI labels. The
install tape is a hybrid, part DOS, part ANSI. I'd have to dig in the machinery to
find the details, but I definitely remember that it's a rather odd beast.
If you do an image copy of the TAP file to tape none of this matters.
paul