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From: dold@=.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unisys -> Sun
Message-ID: <1629@=.Convergent.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 90 15:16:02 GMT
References: <2255@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <2255@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, kristinn@rhi.hi.is (Kristinn Eiriksson) says:

> I have some data on a Unisys (5000/6000?) and need to get it over to a
> Sun SPARC machine.  The only way is to use a cartridge tape (60Mb).
> I have tried cpio (with some switches I can't remeber anymore) and tar cvf,
> but the Sun machine can't read what the Unisys machine wrote!

We have moved data from a Unisys 6000/50 to a SparcStation with no trouble.
We used tar.  I work on the Unisys end, so I'm not sure what options were
used on the Sun, but I've heard vaguely that only certain device names 
work.

More likely is the fact that the Unisys has a 150MB drive, which can't 
write a 60MB tape in any case.

If you have a Unisys 5000/xx, not including 5000/70 and 5000/95, then the
machine does "Intel" byte swapping to tape.  You can use the following
sequence for cpio:
5000:  cpio -oBc >/dev/rmt0
Sun:   dd if=/dev/rmt0 conv=swab | cpio -iBc


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