Chuck Guzis wrote: > I've got a 7 track tape here that was written on a PDP-10 TENEX setup. > It's identified as a "mini-dump" tape. I can extract the data (PDP-10 > 5 char/word) successfully, but the format of the block headers (seems to > be about 6 words) eludes me. I'd like to be able to use the original > file names. Does anyone have information on the mini-dump structure?
Yes. I wrote this by combining various documents, MINI-DUMPER and DUMPER sources, and testing. It includes both MINI-DUMPER and DUMPER. https://gunkies.org/wiki/DUMPER_tape_format I wrote a program to read and write such tapes: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/pdp10-its-disassembler/blob/master/dumper.c I haven't tested extracting a MINI-DUMPER tape, because I don't have any samples. I have created tape images, and tested reading them from inside TENEX.
