Multi tape formats

[Dave Horsfall]

In article <3558 at phri.UUCP> roy at phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
| andrew at frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) writes:
| > Or the world of Unix, where we've seen tp, tar, and cpio.
| 
| 	Not to mention dump, in its various incarnations.  Granted, dump is
| not really meant for file transfer like tar et al. are, but system software
| is often distributed that way.

Not to mention VOLCOPY and DD ...  Ok, they're not "formats", but a lot
of system distributions come that way as well.

What's that up to - 5 formats now?  And no doubt various proprietary
products.  Wonderful things, standards.

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