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From: woods@hao.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: tar
Message-ID: <697@hao.UCAR.EDU>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 01:48:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 28 01:48:03 1987
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In article <926@nrcvax.UUCP> chris@minnie.UUCP (Chris Grevstad) writes:
>Yes, there are systems out there that do byte swap.  Go check out Integrated
>Solutions.  (Why they do this is beyond me.  It's not directly compatible with
>any other system we have.) 

  We have such an Integrated Solutions machine, and the swapping option is
quite nice for writing VAX-compatible tapes (our users are used to VAX byte
order and receive many such tapes in the mail for analysis). Of course, 
since I.S. allows you to have the byte swapping done in the device driver
(by using /dev/srmt0 instead of /dev/rmt0, etc.), we just switched the device
names around to make VAX byte order the default for tapes. It works great.

--Greg
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