And the other more likely option is the “tp” command. It too (unlike the later tar), put
the filenames at the beginning of the tape.
On Nov 18, 2017, at 1:37 PM, Ronald Natalie
<ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
We commonly used “ar” to write DECtapes (TU58) back in the day. If the first block has
a list of filenames, I’m betting that’s what it is!