9 Aug
2006
9 Aug
'06
10:57 a.m.
Yeah -- the tapes I have that are just rebranded Sun distributions (SunOS
and a few others) follow the pattern you mention. However, some of the
other tapes that have pure CV stuff (a lot of the CADD stuff) have hundreds
of files (one of them has over 800), most of which are between 10 and 100k,
all of them separated by these 0-length file marks.
I guess I'll know if I've archived these correctly when I get to the point
where I can install them :).
Thanks,
Josh
Al Kossow writes:
Interesting note, a lot of these tapes have hundreds
of 0-length files
on them; these seem to be placed between files with actual data in
them. I have no idea if this was a standard practice (maybe
ComputerVision hadn't heard of "tar" :)).
--
What you are seeing are file marks, which will return a zero length file if
you just 'dd' them. I haven't looked at CV tapes in a LONG time, but from
memory they are modified SunOS 3 - 4 distributions. What you should find is
a table of contents at the front, some stand-alone utils, a dump file of the
system, and lots of tarballs for the optional parts of the system.