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- From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Subject: Re: Help! Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.215111.1107@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 21:51:11 GMT
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- In article <wycn8yb@lynx.unm.edu> john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice) writes:
- >checksum error. I have seen this problem before. It has to do with SGI
- >writing its integers with the byte order different than the Sun.
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- dd if=/dev/nrst0 conv=swab | tar xvf -
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- your tape name here
-
- "swab" means SWAp Bytes. "dd" is a very useful program for a lot of things.
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- I thought that SGI fixed this a couple of years ago. Are you running an old
- release of IRIX? Or did they not do what they said they were going to?
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- Ruth Milner NRAO/VLA Socorro NM
- Computing Division Head rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
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