Sun TAR

[Ron Natalie]

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