davis@ADENOSINE.PHARM.UTAH.EDU ("Darrell R. Davis") (03/16/90)
I recently bought a couple of Sparcstation-1's (Software compatibility
reasons) and have just today tried to read a tape written on another
Sparc onto my Iris 4D/20 ( a real graphics workstation, :-) ). If it
had worked I wouldn't be posting this message. In the past I have
read tapes from Sun-4's using the command line:
dd if=/dev/tape conv=swab | tar xvf -
I know that the Sparc's have a 150 meg drive, but so is the SGI drive,
so whats the problem? I have tried both straight tar and byte
swapping.
-----Darrell R. Davis
davis@adenosine.pharm.utah.edu
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah
"Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes
the fear of death."
--H.S. Thompson
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