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From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: read/write tar/cpio tapes under dos
Message-ID: <1990Dec27.163955.19762@mks.com>
Date: 27 Dec 90 16:39:55 GMT
References: <5091@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <19397@netcom.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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In article <19397@netcom.UUCP> feustel@netcom.UUCP (David Feustel) writes:
>The MKS Toolkit includes a TAR command which can be used to read unix
>tar files. The command will only read from /dev/mt0 so to use the
>command, create a /dev directory and mv your tar file to /dev/mt0.
>Kludgy, but it works. 

You should be able use the command:  tar xf file.tar

>I haven't figured out how to use this command to write a tar file yet.

Try: tar cf file.tar file1 file2 file3 ...

or:  tar cf file.tar dir1 dir2 dir3 ...
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