Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!apple!netcomsv!woolsey From: woolsey@netcom.COM (Jeff Woolsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc Subject: Re: Reading a CDC tape on a unix system Message-ID: <1991May5.050522.1067@netcom.COM> Date: 5 May 91 05:05:22 GMT References: <3134@sparko.gwu.edu> Sender: netnews@netcom.COM (USENET Administration) Distribution: usa Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services UNIX System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 18 In article gplan@sun9.aer.com (George A. Planansky) writes: >Hmm. *I* was just asked for help reading CDC NOS RECLAIM tapes, on >our system *here*. I might be able to read them. The catch is that I don't know what CDC called one of the formats I ran across. I bought some surplus tapes at what is now known as the Weird Stuff warehouse. I was going to use them for scratch, but I thought I'd better examine them first (some had CDC hubs). Sure enough, there was a deadstart dump tape, a blank-labelled tape, and two tapes that held some form of permanent file archive that was different from the archive tapes I had. A few heuristics later I was looking through some flight simulator support code... These tapes could have been PFDUMP tapes, or the could have been these RECLAIM tapes; I just don't know which is which. -- -- Jeff Woolsey Microtec Research, Inc +1 408 980-1300 woolsey@netcom.COM ...!amdcad!sun0!woolsey