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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
wouldn't the hardest part be figuring out what tar command to run?
tar xis pretty easy, isn't it? Ortar xfif they need to specify the input file/device.Woosh.
If you're implying that I didn't recognize someone 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.
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" :)