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From: larry@jc3b21.UUCP (Lawrence F. Strickland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: cpio for DOS and 3b2 - followup
Message-ID: <196@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 18:14:47 EST
Article-I.D.: jc3b21.196
Posted: Thu Oct 22 18:14:47 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 12:07:10 EST
References: <334@houxj.UUCP>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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in article <334@houxj.UUCP>, wapd@houxj.UUCP (Bill Dietrich) says:
> 
> 
>> Is there any standard for disk or tape cartridge tar (or cpio) format  ?
> ...
> 3B2 expects floppy disks, hard disks and cartridge tapes to contain
> certain OS-dependent or driver-dependent stuff that would make direct

I THINK I've been caught in this same problem.  Our school ordered source
code (and a license, of course :-) for SysVR3 to possibly be put on a
3b2/300.  Since the 3b2/300 doesn't have a tape drive BUT is connected to a
SUN 3/60, we ordered a cartridge tape.

We assumed/were led to believe that the tape would be readable by the SUN
system.  The installation manual even mentions sending the source for install-
ation over ethernet, RS 232, pieces of string, etc. from another machine.

However, despite much trial and error, there seems to be no way to read the
tape on a SUN, an 80386 running XENIX, a PC RT, and so on for about 15
different machines.  ALL of these machines can cut tapes the others can read,
though, only the AT&T tape is not readable.  By using a 3b2/400 (in another
city), though, we have determined that the tape is readable.

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO READ THIS SUCKER ON A SUN or any other reasonable
machine?  The folks at AT&T, of course, shrugged their shoulders when
confronted with the problem (ya pays your money & ...)  I shudder to think
of the necessities if it can only be read on an AT&T machine.  Any help is
greatly appreciated.

-larry

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