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From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: how universal is tar format? SYSV?
Message-ID: <390@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 11:05:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  8 11:05:39 1985
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Reply-To: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Summary: 

I have found one incompatibility - Plexus machines output swapped bytes.
We received a Plexus-generated tar tape and had to do a dd swapb to be able
to read it.  We complained to the originator (wasn't plexus) and they
said it was a natural consequence of byte order.  That's crap - Our
Pyramid is backwards from a VAX and we don't have any problem.  They
just never realized that the Plexus tar should swap bytes to remain
compatible with the rest of the world (I suspect that it was a wierd
tape driver/hardware configuration)	
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Chris Lewis, Motorola New Enterprises
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