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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: QuarterBack Tools - any info on it?
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Date: 18 Nov 90 18:52:26 GMT
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In <36049@cup.portal.com>, thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) in <2237@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
>writes:
>
>	Your 3B1 should accept tar files, right?  Markus Wandel's tape handler
>	and Jonathan Hue's tar work just fine. I transfer stuff to and from
>	Sun systems with it all the time.
>
>Thanks for the above info.  What media does(do) Suns accept?

There's a few different media that are acceptable. I am using an Archive Viper
(60 meg, QIC-11 or QIC-24) cartridge drive, and it works just fine.  Another
option is the 150 meg drives.  Suns use the Archive Scorpion drive, and the
data is in QIC-150 format.

>And, yes, the 3B1 accepts tar, cpio, afio, whatever, and the tar on the Amiga
>works reasonably well (NO problems reading tar files created elsewhere, it's
>just a pain creating them on the Amiga).

I haven't had much problem with the tar I have. It's a port by Jonathan Hue,
and has a patch that fixes something to do with the date.


-larry

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