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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO Xenix tar reading SUN tapes
Message-ID: <1624@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 90 11:12:56 GMT
References: <87@joymrmn.UUCP>
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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root@joymrmn.UUCP (Marcel D. Mongeon) writes:

>I have a number of 60MB tapes which were written on a SUN. (I have
>no idea which one).  They were written in tar format.  When I use
>tar under Xenix 386, they come up as unreadable.


The bytes might be swapped.  Try reading one tape into the system using dd,
using the "conv=swab" option, then look at the resulting file.

or

you could use the following command:


dd if=/dev/rct0 conv=swab | tar tvf -



JB
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