SCO Xenix tar reading SUN tapes
Jonathan Bayer
jbayer at ispi.UUCP
Fri Jun 29 21:12:56 AEST 1990
root at joymrmn.UUCP (Marcel D. Mongeon) writes:
>I have a number of 60MB tapes which were written on a SUN. (I have
>no idea which one). They were written in tar format. When I use
>tar under Xenix 386, they come up as unreadable.
The bytes might be swapped. Try reading one tape into the system using dd,
using the "conv=swab" option, then look at the resulting file.
or
you could use the following command:
dd if=/dev/rct0 conv=swab | tar tvf -
JB
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