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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  rbak/wbak internals inquiry.
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Date: 17 Dec 90 13:51:43 GMT
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The real problem you are having is that wbak encodes some UID data into
the blocks of the data that differs depending on whether the tape is
a 9-track tape or a cartridge tape. You'd have to get a full description
of Apollo's wbak/rbak format in order to write the tape converter.

It would be much easier to simply use "rbak //old_node/directory -as /new_directory"
to read back the old 9-track tapes into whatever directory structure you wish
before re-writing the tapes back out on your ctape drive.


 -- David Krowitz

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