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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: utility for reading sun tar tapes
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Date: 6 Nov 90 23:19:00 GMT
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In article <381@organpipe.UUCP>, layhe@dopey.rc.arizona.edu (Robert Layhe) writes:
|> 
|> recently someone posted a program/utility to read sun tar tapes.  could
|> that be reposted or emailed to me directly.
|> 
No utility is needed beyond tar.

	tar xof /dev/tapens

will do the trick.
-- 
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
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"There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame is to
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