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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: tar format ended-ness
- Message-ID: <tmsc7ik@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Keywords: tar, confusion
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Dec16.052940.5406@gallant.apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 06:22:06 GMT
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- In <1992Dec16.052940.5406@gallant.apple.com> kiddyr@gallant.apple.com (Ray Kiddy) 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?
-
- Tell the folks on the IRIX machine to use /dev/tapens instead of /dev/tape
- when creating the tapes for export. There are long historical
- reasons for this (software) byte swapping; see 'man tps' on IRIX systems
- if you are interested.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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