Accessing a VAX tape drive from a S

[The Beach Bum]

In article <JEREMY.88Sep9164651 at chook.ua.oz> jeremy at chook.ua.oz (Jeremy Webber) writes:
>In article <3463 at phri.UUCP> roy at phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>>	"A standard tape consists of a series of 1024 byte records
>>	terminated by an end-of-file."
>                                                             Since most people
>prefer to specify their own tape blocking I have never seen anything which uses
>cooked tape devices.  They are of no use when using utilities such as tar and
>dump.

but they are useful as file systems.

you can create a file system on a tape, mount it read-only, and reference
files on it just like any other disk-based file system.  you might grow
old waiting for your files, but it should work.
-- 
John F. Haugh II (jfh at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US)                   HASA, "S" Division

    "If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong."
                -- Norm Schryer