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From: john@ncrprt.Lisbon.NCR.COM (John Pena)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: 15 MB tape
Message-ID: <791@ncrprt.Lisbon.NCR.COM>
Date: 7 Oct 90 23:35:46 GMT
Reply-To: john@ncrprt.Lisbon.NCR.COM (John Pena)
Organization: NCR Portugal/Lisbon
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I am having problems mailing this to your address, so I will post it
to news:

Lou,

> 
> Nope, that's not a misprint.  We just received a new tower 32/700
> with UNIX SYS V 1.03 and the now standard 150MB tape drive.  I
> ordered Informix which has since come in on a 15MB tape.  Supposedly
> the tape is to be installed with CPIO commands, but even using
> dd with the byte swap option could not make any sense of this
> strange media.  Anyone out there have any idea if this tape can
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> Lou Anschuetz aka temngt23@ysu.edu or temngt23@ysub.bitnet

I got several times tapes from informix, were it was written
that the tapes were written in cpio format. In reality, they were
in 'tar' format. Could that be your case?

jp
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