Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!yale!cmcl2!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Sun TAR Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 88 16:58:59 GMT References: <327@earth.atexrd.UUCP> Organization: The Office of Mismanagement and Bean Counting Lines: 10 Keywords: TAR, MASSCOMP The tar's are compatible. I assume your problem is with the Quarter Inch Cartridges. Make sure you use /dev/rst8 on the SUN when you read or write tapes for other machine types. By the way, has anyone ever noticed that not a single UNIX tar program obeys the protocol in the TAR manual pages? The man page calls for zero filled fields, but every tar I've seen uses printf and makes space filled fields, fortuately the read procees on these programs doesn't care. -Ron