> Well, I guess, the internal format of a Store-to-Disk file is not exactly
> like the data on the STORE tape or DDS or DLT. I never looked at it like
> Keven obviously had to. My initial TapeCopy version used a "proprietary"
> format for the disc file. It is/was documented in the (then) Pascal source
> code. Keven switched to the Store-to-Disk format (and C source code ;-)
>
> Why can't the disc file match the tape format exactly? Simple reason comes
> to mind... A tape can have groups of records (of varying length) separated
> by tape marks (EOF markers), but a disc file does not have (multiple) EOFs.
>
Lars, well yes, but your terminology is incorrect. A tape can
have several EOF's
on it, meaning several files.  Of course so can a disk.  A file
is a file is a
file.  A tape can have several files on it and so can a disk.

Nick D.