Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!g-rh
From: g-rh@cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sun TAR
Message-ID: <25434@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 11 Mar 88 05:42:08 GMT
References: <327@earth.atexrd.UUCP>
Reply-To: g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Richard Harter)
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 20
Keywords: TAR, MASSCOMP
Summary: If you are talking cartridge, forget it.

In article <327@earth.atexrd.UUCP> mikeh@atexrd.UUCP (Mike Harris) writes:
>Forgive me if this question has already been posed to the group, but can
>anyone tell me how to extract from a tape, written by a MASSCOMP, from a
>SUN??  I had have no trouble whatsoever reading and writing tapes between
>Masscomp and Intel machines, but am unable to read the tape on a SUN.
>Any Ideas?

Me thinks you are talking about 1/4 inch cartridge tapes rather than 1/2
inch 9 track tapes.  1/2 inch 9 track TAR tapes all use the same format
(excepting for delightful little bits like word order and BSD/Sys V block
size differences).  They go all over the place.  Cartridges are a different
matter -- there are several different formats in use in the industry and
SUN follows their own drummer.  Someone have conversion software -- our
experience is that life is a lot simpler if you stick to 9-track tape for
inter machine transport.
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In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die.
	Richard Harter, SMDS  Inc.