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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: dd and tar problem
Keywords: ultrix dd tar
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Date: 19 Sep 90 18:11:39 GMT
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Try specifying a block size on the dd command.  Works for me...

% dd bs=10240 if=/dev/rmt0h | tar tvf -

Fred