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From: cwayne@hydra.unm.edu (Chris Wayne SCONS)
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Subject: Reading tapes
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Date: 7 May 90 18:34:21 GMT
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     I'm looking for a program and/or technique that can read past EOF flags
on tape, for the sole purpose of reading the data that 'was' on the tape.
For example (common error), you do a tar -cv on a tape that has data...
With all of my knowledge, I'd say I'm SOL, but at the same time I know there's
got to be a way to retrieve the old data.  Any HELP will be appreciated.


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