Newton, Ernie wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am trying to restore from a reel tape and the RESTORE
> is aborting itself without telling me why.  This tape is
> twenty years old, and I'm ass-u-ming it's a STORE tape
> because the system can read the directory.

Could you post the results of a RESTORE ;;LISTDIR ?
For it to be 20 years old it would have been a very early
MPE/XL version (even STORE/RESTORE only says 'copyright 1986')
that wrote this tape.

What can you tell us about these files ? anything special about
them ?  I noticed the names all end with a '91' .

The only problem I remember about forward compatibility with
STORE & RESTORE was between 5.0 and 5.5 and had to do with
RESTORE-ing spoolfiles (IIRC).

Goetz

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