Re: Reading Symbolics tapes on UNIX

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Marc Holz wrote:

> I got a bunch of Symbolics tapes and would like
> to exctract them on a unix box. Is/was there a program
> existing for that purpose ? These tapes were not written
> with tar and I do hope there's a way to preserve the contents.

Greetings, Marc.

I wrote a bourne shell script to make an 'image' of a QIC tape, so that it
could be regenerated in the event of a media failure. I will send it to
you this evening, when I am at home.

It will work with any QIC tape you have a drive capable of reading. I have
used it successfully with Symbolics, Apollo, AS/400, and other tapes. What
it does NOT do is interpret the specific software format (carry-tape,
WBAK, etc.)

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