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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: reading tapes on 386/ix written to SCO's /dev/erct0
Message-ID: <15973@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 90 04:25:27 GMT
References: <1990Oct17.201051.28614@cti-software.nl> <1990Oct18.194508.10825@cti-software.nl>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <1990Oct18.194508.10825@cti-software.nl> pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>I wrote:
>
>>I have these two tapes I want to read on our 386/ix 2.0.2 system.
>>But apperently they were written on SCO UNIX using /dev/erct0,
>>the error correcting device.
>
>With a bit of experimenting, I solved the problem myself.
>
>This is the program I used.
>Usage:
>	dd if=/dev/tape bs=256k | skipecc | cpio -i ....

Put that C compiler away.

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	#/bin/sh

	# skipecc, using the tools God and AT&T gave us.

	while true
	do
		dd bs=31744 count=1
		dd bs=1024 count=1 of=/dev/null
	done
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