apollo@ecf.toronto.edu (Vince Pugliese) (03/06/89)
a couple of things to keep in mind when using tar on apollo's: 1) unless the tape has been rewound tar will balk giving you the device not found error. in order to rewind use the rbak command as follows /com/rbak -dev ct -rewind now you are ready to use tar but wait.... 2) /dev/rct8 use QIC-24 format which is fine for transfer to suns, using rst8 and iris nodes using rmt1 but you have to realize that iris' do a byte swapping which has to be UNDONE so to speak. so let's assume you have written out your tape using /dev/rct8 at the apollo end when you try to read the tape at the iris end do the following: dd conv=swab if=/dev/rmt1 | tar -xvf - and the restoration should take place. going the other way means having to reverse the order of the dd and the tar operations vince pugliese