[comp.unix.ultrix] TAR on Ultrix 4.1

jdubb@bucsf.bu.edu (jay dubb) (02/14/91)

   I am posting this for a friend of mine who doesn't have access
to USENET, so please respond directly to mlevin@jade.tufts.edu.

   I have a weird problem: I have a TK50 tape with a TAR archive on it
that I need to restore to my disk, but the archive is itself a TAR
file that needs to be extracted again. I don't have enough room on my
hard disk to restore the archive, and then restore its contents to the
disk (the archive *and* its contents won't both fit on my disk). I
thought there may be a way to pipe tar through tar, to do the
unpacking off the disk. Something like: tar x | tar fx -
Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so, what the right syntax
would be (to take an archive off the tape, and pipe it through tar
again, so that the original files end up on the disk).
Thanks. Please reply directly to:

				Mike Levin (mlevin@jade.tufts.edu)