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From: jeff@answer.UUCP (Jeffrey E. Finucane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Using Tar
Message-ID: <5@answer.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 90 15:10:09 GMT
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Reply-To: jeff@answer.UUCP (Jeffrey E. Finucane)
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Wade:
  Unless I misunderstand your problem, it seems you should be able to place the
tar file on tape with dd or the likes
   dd if=emacs.tar of=/dev/rct0
and then use tar to extract it (after removing the tar file from the HD).
						Jeff