[comp.unix.xenix] Reading tapes from sun

swade@darkside.com (Swade) (08/21/90)

I've got this tape that I got from a friend with a sun micro box
but I can't seem to extract the tar archive in SCO UNIX System V 3.2
tar just says that there is a tape error... Can anyone help?

davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (08/23/90)

In article <Z7g9N1w163w@darkside.com> swade@darkside.com (Swade) writes:
| I've got this tape that I got from a friend with a sun micro box
| but I can't seem to extract the tar archive in SCO UNIX System V 3.2
| tar just says that there is a tape error... Can anyone help?

  It has to be made on the Sun on /dev/rst8. If he used rst0 you can't
read it. You might try reading on /dev/rct2 on xenix, though, that's
another format and may match.
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