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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
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- Subject: Re: Help! Can I recover screwed up tar archive?
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- Date: 9 Jan 93 03:29:35 GMT
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- In <C0Jq7o.Hqz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cjgg1584@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Cynthia J. Gibas) writes:
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- | I need to extract information, if possible, from a tape which tar reads as
- | having a 'directory checksum error'. Is there a way to trick tar into reading
- | a tape screwed up in this particular way?
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- Most likely it is just byte swapped. Try using /dev/tapens. If that
- still fails, use the 'e' option (with both /dev/tape and /dev/tapens,
- whichever one works).
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