Newton, Ernie wrote:

> The store process used for these tapes is normal, but with the
> following parameters..."INTER;MAXTAPEBUF;COMPRESS"...The entity
> that did this used the old upright, manual-feed type tape drive,
> (they're still on OS 5.5), and I'm using a 7980S to read those
> tapes.  IIRC, the 7980 came into being in the late 80's.

Interleave and compress were, IIRC, TurboSTORE options.  FOS RESTORE
might not do the trick.  I don't think there are any media issues as the
7980 would do anything it's predecessors would do (well, 800bpi tapes
aside).  There were some streaming block size issues if the tape was
written on a newer technology drive with maxtapebuf (not necessarily
backward compatible) but with a 7980 should not be an issue.

Jeff

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