Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!bungi.com!news From: castle!nomad@hydra.convex.com (Lee Damon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: Re: Help.... monitor never returns from write Message-ID: <9009230528.AA17996@castle.org> Date: 23 Sep 90 05:28:43 GMT Sender: news@daver.bungi.com Lines: 29 Approved: news@daver.bungi.com >> >CRC ok, length = 346262 >> >Command (? for help): write d'30256 2000 d'346262 >Try using blocks... about d'677 should be enough (instead of 346262). I read and reread and rereread that help message, and never made the connection != . That's what I get for being in a hurry. >> ># ncat /dev/hd4 | uncompress > /tmp/bin1.tar >I didn't have any luck using pipes this way, and you are using ncat wrong. And again, what I get for typing in a hurry. I had ncat right on my screen, but didn't translate correctly. >This should get you up... Yep, it sure did. thanks! (once I changed the write target correctly to 60512 :-) So, dragon.castle.org is now running full distribution Minix. All I have to do now is figure out how to make backups. :-) Anyone have a driver for an Archive 2150S streaming tape drive? nomad --------------------------------- \ play: castle!nomad or nomad@castle.org - Lee "nomad" Damon - \ work: convex!nomad or nomad@convex.com \ Marketing Computer Systems Administrator - Convex [Super]Computer Co. / \ "I Can't Stand Intolerance!" / \