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From: chapman@fornax.UUCP (John Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO Xenix tar reading SUN tapes
Summary: oops
Message-ID: <927@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 90 03:47:18 GMT
References: <87@joymrmn.UUCP> <1220@sixhub.UUCP> <926@fornax.UUCP>
Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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In article <926@fornax.UUCP>, chapman@fornax.UUCP (John Chapman) writes:
> In article <1220@sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> > In article <87@joymrmn.UUCP> root@joymrmn.UUCP (Marcel D. Mongeon) writes:
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> You definitely need qic24 (rst8) so check that; but you will also probably have
> to byte-swap the tape (I do), e.g.
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> dd if=/dev/yourtape ibs=52100 conv=swab | tar tvf -
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> on your 386. Hope this helps.
> 

ooopppps, that should have been ibs=51200 (actually it will work without it but very slowly)