On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, John Williams wrote:
> I sure wish I could find a tape utility that would just read raw tapes,
> i.e. no tar, no backup format, just records.
>
> Ideally it would be like the old 9-track utilities and would let me read
> variable length records and tell me how long they are. It would also at the
> least allow me to stream a chosen file to disk and rewind. My target is an
> Exabyte 8205 8mm drive.
>
> Any ideas?
dd has always served me well for this purpose and a myriad others.
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