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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: tar, 3030 <=> sun
Keywords: tar
Message-ID: <36538@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 90 23:26:08 GMT
References: <437@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>
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In article <437@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> disbrow@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Jim Disbrow) writes:
>Is there some reason why a tar tape created on a 3030 series machine
>can't be read on a Sun 3/280?  Is it just me, or has anyone else
>experienced difficulties. Blocking factors are the same, the 3030 tar 
>seems to have 512 byte records that can't (according to the man page)
>be changed.  the man page on the Sun doesn't say what byte record it 
>uses, or how to change that either.

SGI systems write their tapes byte-swapped.  You must do the following:

	dd if=<my-tape-drive> conv=swab | tar xf -
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