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thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

hopefully the tape is still good. You want to know what is the coolest thing about those old tapes, they are just a TAR

so the challenges are

finding a working tape reader

hopefully the tape is readable

time

that shits gonna take forever

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Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
wouldn’t the hardest part be figuring out what tar command to run?

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- who@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  tar x is pretty easy, isn’t it? Or tar xf if they need to specify the input file/device.
  
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  - lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Woosh.
    
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    who@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If you’re implying that I didn’t get that they were taking a jab at a unix command, then no, not whoosh. I got that. It doesn’t make a clever or funny joke, though, because the command they chose to ridicule is easy, and is the same in other archive tools like 7z and rar.
    
    If you think something else went over my head, then perhaps you could enlighten me by saying what you mean.
    
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vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I suppose tar stands for tape archive. It hadn’t occured to me.

Just like t hadn’t occurred to me that x86’s popcnt instruction stands for “population count” :)

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