Tymshare PDP-10 tapes

Lars Brinkhoff lars at nocrew.org
Fri Mar 5 12:37:47 CST 2021


Tony Aiuto wrote:
> that gets lots of files with names like 'dsk:[1,4]specdf525].mic'
> That just seems wrong.

Correct, back10 does get some things wrong.  It also puts some data at
the beginning of files which should be part of the file header.  TITO
uses the "*FAILSAFE" magic number which fools back10 to think it's
FAILSAFE.

What problem do you have with my tito tool?  Which tape did you try?
I haven't tested all tapes, so maybe some of them has surprises.
I'm not sure what to do with the file checksum yet.


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