Have you tried reading the edges of the tape? They left out that op-code in
the link below...

http://www.bixoft.nl/english/humoropc.htm

j-m


On 4 September 2013 08:02, Johnson, Tracy <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> On one of my minor systems I had a System Halt and decided make a dump.
>
> But I had the tape in the wrong drive.
>
> The Dump went amazingly fast, I assume it went to disc somewhere.
>
> So where did it go?  The 80 character string is too long for an MPE file
> name.
>
> Or should I make the other assumption, that it went to /dev/null ?
>
> (I can make it crash again to get another dump, no big whoop.  I'm just
> curious at this point.)
>
>
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