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From: nonh@utzoo.UUCP (Chris Robertson)
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Subject: Re: more robust tar (or how to live with bad tapes)
Message-ID: <6067@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 14:52:23 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 20 14:52:23 1985
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In article <21@pixel.UUCP> vsh@pixel.UUCP (vsh) writes:
>> Has anyone modified 'tar' to handle and recover from tape errors?
>
>I don't know if this will work for you, but ...
>On Pixel systems we use cartridge tapes...
			<several commands>

One note here -- Pixels have a very nice but non-standard 'tar';  several
of the options including the -I option in the given command don't exist
on many other systems.  If anyone else wants them, I have a couple of
small C programs written by Henry Spencer, designed to grab stuff from
bad tar tapes -- they are known to work on both Pixel and V7 Unix.
Send me mail; if enough arrives, and Henry agrees, I'll post them;
otherwise, I'll mail them.
--chris