16 Jan
2003
16 Jan
'03
9:53 p.m.
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, David Evans wrote:
[snip]
maketape will pad each of "mtboot", "mtboot", and "boot" out
to an even
length of 512 bytes. The "cat | dd" method will not pad the first two
out.
I discovered this while trying to create a bootable tape image for simh.
I needed to emulate the maketape behavior for it to work.
Andru
--
Andru Luvisi, Programmer/Analyst
Quote Of The Moment:
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
( Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound. )
Use the
maketape programm from the archive. dd will not work proper.
That's truly weird.