On Sat, 18 Nov 2017, Ronald Natalie 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!
Or ye olde "tp" format? 'Twas the precursor of "tar", and I
dimly recall
that it was wriiten for the Ducktapes (our old 11/40 had just about
everything except that).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."