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ú    Subject: QIC archive from CTOS to UNIX

RD::>Hi,

RD::>        I am looking for a way to convert a 150 QIC archive, made on a
  ::>CTOS SG5000 machine, to a UNIX readeble format.
  ::>It's possible to read the tape with te 'dd' command.
  ::>But the archive has a certain internal structure, it appears that
  ::>it's build on blocks of 64 K with some control delimiters and within that
  ::>blocks you see a sort of 'tar' format.
  ::>Question: has someone out there a program that can read such a archive
  ::>          or is there a C-structure which gives me the layout of the
  ::>          archive so that I can make a program on myself.

  There's another possible route...

  Once upon a time there was a product called the Developer's Toolkit.
  This package contained a batch of CTOS programs that were
  CTOSizations of UNIX utilities.  One pair of utilities, included
  specifically to enable transfer of data, were called "CPIO IN" and
  "CPIO OUT", and they generated tapes in cpio format.  You might want
  to try looking into regenerating the tape using these utilities...

  Are you using the SG or the UNIX box?  If the former, what do you
  think of it?

  J/
  jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com
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