[HECnet] BRU tapes, extract on UNIX?

[Clem Cole]

The format is defined in:   http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rsx/decus/rsx86a/301050/bruformat.txt
and yes UNIX has tools that grok it.

Worst case it any ANSI tape reader will get the raw data off as files with strange names and you may need a shell script to put some of the files back together after decoding the directory.   

My old housemate (and SPICE2/3 author) Tom Quarles wrote an really good ANSI tape reader for Unix years ago. It did VMS format by default but seem to remember he added RT11 and RSX support to it also.   Since we had to write tapes to export to those systems also.

Sadly, I used to have a directory of "magtape utilities" but I no longer have it online.    I'll try to poke around to see if I can find it next weekend if no one else shouts out sooner.

Clem



On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
All,

Is it possible to extract files from a BRU RSX tape on UNIX, or is the best path BRUREAD to VMS, and then zip/tar?

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