[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Chris]

On 08/07/18 19:45, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<pkajsi$u2a$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Chris<xxx.syseng.yyy at gfsys.co.uk>  writes:
>>
>> Ok, but that's a pretty special case, though who knows what systems
>> programmers have to deal with from time to time :-). If you are on a
>> unix machine, then there are other utils, like dd to investigate low
>> level disk and tape formats...
>>
>
>     dd would not tell me what desnity a 9-track tape drive was written at.
>

No, but assume you know what system it came from, which should be a
pointer to the data format, or at least narrow it down. Otherwise, why
would you want to read it...

Chris