[Simh] Byte-swapped tar tape circa 1987

[dott.Piergiorgio]

Il 29/07/2011 01:44, Larry Baker ha scritto:

> searching). I looked once more at the ASCII in the archive, and mentally
> byte-swapped some of the strings that looked like they should have been
> file names. BINGO! What looked like gibberish became words. I used dd
> conv=swab on my Mac to byte-swap the file and, lo and behold, tar -tf
> worked.
>
> About the time the tape was written, we had a pair of VAX-11/750's
> networked to a VAX-11/785. One of the VAX-11/750's ran BSD Unix. I don't
> know whether there was a device name option to select byte-swapping

well, indeed is the NUXI problem...

> http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/N/NUXI-problem.html

now I'm curious of the cause of the bit swapping....

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.