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From: khaw@pplace.COM (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: tar and /dev/rct12
Message-ID: <526@parcplace.pplace.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 89 02:16:41 GMT
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Domain_OS 10.1, DN4500, bsd environment.

I just made a tar tape using:

	tar cf /dev/rct12 .
	cd somewhere else
	tar cf /dev/rct12

(rct12 is the non-rewinding 1/4" cart. tape drive device file).

The machine that I made the tape on can't read the 2nd tar archive
(it says something about /dev/rct12 being non-existent) using either
tar or dd.

I can read the tape on a Sun using /dev/nrst8 (QIC-24 format, nonrewinding).

Seems to me tar is (still) broken on Apollos.  Is there a patch to fix
this problem?

Mike Khaw
ParcPlace Systems, 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA 94043	415/691-6749
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