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- From: James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: tar format ended-ness
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- References: <1992Dec16.052940.5406@gallant.apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:52:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.052940.5406@gallant.apple.com> Ray Kiddy,
- kiddyr@gallant.apple.com writes:
- >i just received a tar tape from someone using Irix and tar2local (sp?).
- >i am trying to read it on a Sun4, but i am getting directory checksum
- >errors. when i do an od -c on the device, it looks like when it wants
- >the file name to be abcd (what it was to the Irix user), i see it as
- >badc, etc, for the length of the tape. given that tar is supposed to be
- >pretty platform-independent, why would this be occuring?
- >
- >any e-mail would be appreciated, or punt, er, post it.
-
- You will need to use 'dd' to swap the bytes.
-
- Try:
-
- dd if=/dev/tape of=<diskfile> conv=swab
-
- This will swap the order of the bytes, and give you as file which tar
- will read.
-
- Alternatively, if you want to bypass the disk tar file try
-
- dd if=/dev/tape conv=swab |tar xvf -
-
- James Petts
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