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- From: sukes@eng.umd.edu (Tasuki Hirata)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: SunDump and A/UX's dump.bsd (actually tar)
- Date: 11 Jan 93 17:16:21
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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- Message-ID: <SUKES.93Jan11171621@egypt.eng.umd.edu>
- References: <145103@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1993Jan9.165900.11728@noao.edu>
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- In-reply-to: tody@noao.edu's message of Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:59:00 GMT
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- > Nntp-Posting-Host: lepus.tuc.noao.edu
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- > In article <145103@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, hatch@conan.llnl.gov (Jeff Hatch) writes:
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- > A/UX can read a tar file written on a Sun and vice versa, e.g. if you
- > transfer the tar file via a network or uucp transfer. The problem you see
- > with tapes is most likely the 8K fixed size blocking used by the Apple tc
- > driver. You might want to try Jim Jagielski's hacked version of the tc
- > driver, which supports 1K fixed size blocks (and maybe variable length
- > blocks) either of which can be generated on a Sun. Also watch out for
- > compression if your drive supports it.
-
- Hmm. I don't remember if I replied to this thread or not, but..
-
- Back when I was still running A/UX, I had a QIC-150 tape hanging off
- my mac. I compiled GNU tar with 8k fixed size blocking.
- I didn't have any trouble reading Sun or Solborne tapes in
- QIC-24 or QIC-150 format. I just had trouble writing QIC-150
- format since the tc driver didn't handle it correctly.
-
- My 2 cents worth.
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