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From: petej@itcode.Eng.Sun.COM (Pete Jolly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Extensions Tape Tower 32
Keywords: Extensions OS Tape Unix man
Message-ID: <8058@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 91 00:46:54 GMT
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I have a Tower that was just purchased a few months ago.  There
was a lot of stuff on it and I decided to back it all up and
reinstall the OS.  After doing the install, I had a problem
with my extensions tape working properly.  I tried to look
at the tape manually and restore some stuff from it (by
skipping to the sections that seemed to have relavent files
on it) but before it gets to the man pages etc. I get a
tar error (I think I was using tar...it could have been
cpio though ) .  Are man pages located on the extensions 
tape or do they come from somewhere else?  I know they
used to be on the system before but I don't want to flounder
around with old backup tapes with unknown versions.  Also,
does anyone know what kinds of fees NCR charges for OS 
tape updates etc.

How about 3rd party vendors for hardware.  I would like to
put this machine as a customer server but I am concerned about
response time and part availability.  Right now I am using 
clones with Xenix and would like to use the Tower for the
same kind of thing.  I guess it is hard to compete with
clone price/availability on parts.


Thanks in advance,

Pete Jolly
San Jose, California