offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

[der Mouse]

> I honestly have no idea how to best do a tape under Unix, as I always
> use VMS.  I believe there are a couple tools available at the SIMH
> site for doing this on Unix, the standard Unix tools won't work (I'm
> not sure what would happen if you tried to use 'dd' under Unix, I do
> use 'dd' for PDP-11 SCSI HD's.

dd works on tapes, but unless the tape can be recreated from the byte
stream, it's not what you want.

I'd suggest copytape, myself.  It's a way of encapsulating streams of
records into streams of bytes, and a program to read tapes and write
bytestreams and vice versa.

There's a version of it up for anonymous ftp from
ftp.rodents.montreal.qc.ca (in /mouseware/local-src/copytape/); I don't
know what other versions may be kicking around....

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