Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Reading tapes from sun Message-ID: <1589@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 23 Aug 90 01:15:13 GMT References: Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 13 In article swade@darkside.com (Swade) writes: | I've got this tape that I got from a friend with a sun micro box | but I can't seem to extract the tar archive in SCO UNIX System V 3.2 | tar just says that there is a tape error... Can anyone help? It has to be made on the Sun on /dev/rst8. If he used rst0 you can't read it. You might try reading on /dev/rct2 on xenix, though, that's another format and may match. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me