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From: levine%fidler.decnet@NWC.NAVY.MIL ("FIDLER::LEVINE")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Problem reading foreign TAR tapes
Message-ID: <8910051647.aa22396@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Oct 89 20:40:00 GMT
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	I am vax cluster system manager with a user who just got a 
Silicon Graphics IRIS 4D/240GTX running  IRIX (AT&T System V with 
BSD Extentions) V3.1 . He wants to be able to exchange data between his 
computer and my cluster useing mag-tapes. I used the TARWRITE program
supplied in the Spring 89 VAX/L&T SIG Tape VAX000.TOOLS directory to
build a tar tape, but he is unable to read it even useing the command

 dd | tar . . .

is there anything else to try on the VAX or Silicon Graphics to be able
to produce a readable tar tape, or is there a way on the Silicon Graphics
to read/write blocked tapes?

	Please respond directly as I do not get the INFO-IRIS conference.

Michael N. LeVine  Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, Ca 93555, USA
Internet: levine%fidler.decnet@nwc.navy.mil,levine%fidler.decnet@26.3.0.85
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