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- These programs are used to get files back from old Unix tape backup images.
- Many were written ages ago, and my need to be ported to 32-bit and/or
- big-endian machines.
-
- Here's a chart of what each is supposed to do what, and my success with using
- it on a 32-bit little-endian machine (an i486 running FreeBSD).
-
- tp itp dtp v6
- backup backup backup dump
- 512restor ?
- tp-progs Y Y Y
-
- ? = it's supposed to, but I haven't tried it yet
- Y = it worked on my FreeBSD box
-
-
- 512restor Readme
- ----------------
- This directory contains sources for 512restor and 1024restor, restore
- programs which can read V7-style dump tapes generated on 512-block
- file systems (straight V7), and 1024-block file systems (Ultrix-11),
- respectively.
-
- Scott Narveson, August 1988
-
- Tarx Readme
- -----------
-
- Tarx is a newer, cleaner, more versatile replacement for my old targ/tarl
- programs for salvaging information from damaged tar tapes. It does a
- better job on various details and has been extensively tidied up.
-
- Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
- henry@zoo.toronto.ca
-
- Tp-progs Readme
- ---------------
- These programs list the table of contents and extract files from tp, dtp
- and itp Unix archives. These archive formats were used in 6th and 7th
- Edition Unix, and predate tar(1) format.
-
- Warren Toomey wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au March 1995
-
- Vtserver Readme
- ---------------
- The VTserver software allows you to install 7th Edition UNIX onto a PDP-11
- without requiring a tape drive.
-
-
- Tarboot Readme
- --------------
-
- Tarboot is a standalone bootstrap which will load a program from an
- (unblocked) tar-format tape on a TM11 or equivalent. When started,
- it prompts with `=' for a filename; it then rewinds the tape and
- searches it for a file of that name. The first file of that name is
- loaded into core and executed.
- Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
- henry@zoo.toronto.ca
-
- Newoldar Readme
- ---------------
-
- A modified 2.9BSD ar which handles archives created on a PDP-11 directly from
- non-PDP platforms. Archives identified as "old PDP-11 archive" by file(1)
- or otherwise having a 2-byte header of value 177545 (0xff65) can be
- manipulated using this utility. The omnipresent "cont.a" archives
- fall into this category.
-