On 12/16/2015 11:11 AM, Dave Wade wrote:

CMS TAPE files are not intended to be used by other systems and the format
is undocumented (well except a little in the source code) and has changed
several times as disk formats have changed.

I've been on the receiving end of this before--several times. Damned inconsiderate programmers with no thoughts of the future. Undocumented format--how quaint.

Right now, I'm puzzling over a QIC tape that was apparently made early on using Sytos, but the header doesn't match any version of Sytos that I've seen. Wonderful.

--Chuck

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