>> fwiw, I made my own format when I archived all my old tapes. [...] > congratulations, you reinvented .tap format.. badly.
Now, now, no need to be harsh. I daresay this format was intended for purposes somewhat different from .tap's and thus its tradeoffs were made differently. I invented a similar slightly different format myself, once (it was to represent tapes in a software-simulated tape drive; it was much like the format whose description I cut, above, except that each record had its length after as well as before it, to make backward skips easy - something not important and not worth spending storage space on if you're just trying to archive existing tapes' data). > how did you handle unreadable blocks. Quite possibly not at all, since it appears to have been intended for archiving readable tapes. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
