davison@bnl.UUCP (Dan Davison) (03/14/85)
SUNY at Stony Brook has just recently received a binary-only UNIX for the Univac 1100 series, called SX-1100. The people at the comp center in charge of the thing haven't seen Unix much before. Now the problem. I've got a tar tape which cannot be read on SX1100. It reads fine on a V7 system, so the problem is not the specific tape. (I'll check my other tar tapes tomorrow; I expect the same result.) Has anyone out there run/know of where someone might be running/ know rumors of where someone might be running SX-1100? Technically, it appears the problem is that the SX-1100 creates a "demand" run (interactive to the rest of the computing world outside of Univac) => on the 1100 Exec operating system, which reads the tape and writes a file, and then tells SX-1100 tar to play with the file. Well, tar can't do anything with the file; even in verbose mode it just hangs. If it's of any use, SX-1100 is a port of system V (not known whether R2 or not). It also has many Berkleyisms in it. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. The alternative appears to be to dump the tape in octal and then feed the file to a SX-1100 program which writes it back out in ascii. (This is to get rid of the Univac file headers and trailers and other assorted baggage.) They also don't have UUCP working on the system yet (they got it three weeks ago & are very understaffed), so please note the various mailboxes below. Thanks in advance, dan davison ...decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl!davison davison@bnl.arpa, .bitnet compuserve: 74065,41 telephone: 516-246-2446 (leave a message) real (?) life: Department of Microbiology SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York 11794