[Simh] [simh at alderson.users.panix.com: Re: Announcement: back10]

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Rich Alderson wrote:
> Since that conversation, I've thought of another objection:  No one using
> a Tops-10 or TOPS-20 backup tool will be able to read tape images in the
> ANSI ASCII format, since both BACKUP and DUMPER force, repeat *force*, the
> drive into coredump format, for both input and output.  Rather than rewriting
> all the tools created to deal with tapes, why don't we simply use the right
> format to begin with?

Oh, absolutetly!  I wasn't thinking about tape images at all.  By all
means, keep using core dump.