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From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Perkin-Elmer OS-32 and tape programs
Message-ID: <893@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 90 20:28:52 GMT
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In article <3504@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
>I need to write a tape for a person in Thailand that has some
>sort of Perkin-Elmer machine running OS-32 (?).  This person
>tells me this is a kind of UNIX.  However, discussion with him
>leads me to the conclusion he doesn't know too much about his
>system beyond that.  I asked him if he had "tar".  "No."  How
>about "cpio"?  "No."  How about "mt"?  "No."

OS/32 is P-E/Concurrent's real-time OS, and != Unix (the SVr2
port to that platform is Xelos).  According to a friend still
at the company, the 8.32 release has a program 'tapecon' which
can convert from Unix tar or cpio formats.  Any earlier releases
and your friend is probably up the creek.

						Bob Halloran
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