mark (03/10/83)
#R:ncsu:-112900:zinfandel:12400019:000:477 zinfandel!mark Mar 8 21:00:00 1983 tp had several problems for distribution tapes: mostly that it wrote a lot of binary information. How would you like to try to read a tp tape where the file addresses were VAX 4-byte integers if you were on a PDP11? As I recall, tp also could not update tapes, although that's not so serious for distribution. (Didn't it also have a fixed size directory?) Maybe some of these things were changed in V7; I know that it's in C now. Mark Wittenberg ...!decvax!sytek!zehntel!mark