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From: erik@unislc.uucp (Erik Sean Nolte)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unisys -> Sun
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.174147.4256@unislc.uucp>
Date: 10 Oct 90 17:41:47 GMT
References: <2255@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: erik@unislc.UUCP (Erik Sean Nolte,B2D10,5362)
Organization: Unisys, Salt Lake City
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In article <2255@krafla.rhi.hi.is> kristinn@rhi.hi.is (Kristinn Eiriksson) writes:
>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!

What U series machine are you using?  Tapes written on U5000/30-55 (NCR) 
are incompatible with tapes written on U6000 and presumably Sun machines.
To fix this problem try swapping the bytes as you read the tape into the
U6000/Sun (ex dd if=<tape device> of=/tmp/myfile conv=swab).

My response would be more complete if I knew what the machines were and
exactly what commands you tried.