electrme@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Electrohome Ltd.) (11/08/90)
We have a 1/4 inch tape cartridge that contains a large tar file. The first part of the tape somehow got some garbage and stray EOF markers on it. At some point, there are two consecutive EOF markers, causing mt, tar, dd, read(), and other such items to think that the tape ends at the second EOF. Does anyone know of any way to obtain the data that is left beyond the second EOF marker? We are using SunOS 4.0.3 (so there is no way of setting a flag to ignore the EOF as you can do in Ultrix). Please respond by E-mail and I'll summarize to the net if there is interest. -- Carlo Sgro electrme@watcgl.waterloo.edu System Administrator, Electrohome Ltd. uunet!watmath!watcgl!electrme Kitchener, ON, Canada