Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpdslab!hpdstma!dc From: dc@hpdstma.HP.COM (Daniel Cordey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: dump and restore(1M) on hp-ux 2.1 Message-ID: <1310005@hpdstma.HP.COM> Date: 9 Dec 88 23:28:38 GMT References: <109@geysir.os.is> Organization: Hewlett-Packard TCG Tech marketing, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 25 >I asked for the patch and got a tape that seemed to be a tar tape -- no >directions came with it. Tar extracted something called "restore.nca" >in a directory named HPUX0100 or something close to that. At that point >I could not figure out what to do with restore.nca, nor could I get an >answer from the HP Response Center except to tell me that the tape was >not a tar tape and I should use cpio! I dutifully tried cpio and got >_nothing_ from the tape. I reported that problem to the response center >and I'm still waiting for a reply! I would use the following set of commands : tar -xv cpio -icvd