[Wylug-help] The tape saga continues...

Martyn Ranyard martyn at syn.co.uk
Fri Aug 15 12:51:36 BST 2003


Quoting Graham Whaley <graham.whaley at codescape.com>:

> Can you give us a hex dump of the header ? - something like
>
> head filename.bin | hexdump -C

For those interested (those who like a challenge!), I have attached it to this
email.

>   I would then look for any pertinent strings in the header and google for
> them.  Or, scan through some Unix files, such as the source :-), or the
> magic (/usr/share/magic on my box) file.

Yeah, I've come up with nothing from that so far.

>   Have you tried a 'file filename.bin' on it ?

Yes, should have mentioned that - it guesses "data". :-)

>     I did some googling on the HDR, "SECTOR SIZE" and SOURCE, but no luck
> I'm afraid.

Me too.

>   So, on a side note, does anybody know how to get google to accept '*'s in
> a search string ?

I was wondering that!

>     Graham

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Martyn Ranyard
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