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Re: Software to read old DDSx tapes

From "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Software to read old DDSx tapes
Date 2018-08-29 15:46 -0400
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On 8/28/18 9:07 PM, Rich wrote:

>> Re: "Microsoft Format." The developer of the software that wrote
>> these tapes originally used a format of its own, but then with a
>> later version of the software said it was switching to Microsoft Tape
>> Format":
>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tape_Format
>>
>> There is a link there to a Seagate .pdf describing that format.
> 
> How did you miss the second paragraph of that wikipedia page?
> 
> The one that states:
> 
>     Several open source utilities have been written to read MTF on
>     non-Windows platforms.[1][2][3]

I didn't find (didn't even look for) that Wikipedia page until I 
realized that people did not know what "Microsoft (Tape) format" was.

Perce

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Software to read old DDSx tapes "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2018-08-28 12:48 -0400
  Re: Software to read old DDSx tapes Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2018-08-28 13:15 -0400
    Re: Software to read old DDSx tapes "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2018-08-28 14:10 -0400
      Re: Software to read old DDSx tapes Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2018-08-28 14:37 -0400
        Re: Software to read old DDSx tapes "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2018-08-28 18:20 -0400
        Re: Software to read old DDSx tapes pedro1492@lycos.com - 2018-08-30 03:59 -0700
      Re: Software to read old DDSx tapes Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-08-29 01:07 +0000
        Re: Software to read old DDSx tapes "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2018-08-29 15:46 -0400
  Re: Software to read old DDSx tapes The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-28 18:34 +0100
  Re: Software to read old DDSx tapes Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2018-08-28 14:46 -0400

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