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- From: thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Help! Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
- Message-ID: <7845@public.BTR.COM>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:42:21 GMT
- References: <wycn8yb@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Aug27.215111.1107@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, Mountain View CA
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- In article <1992Aug27.215111.1107@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
- |[...]
- | 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.
- |
- |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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- The latest released IRIX, 4.0.5, still defaults the /dev/tape for QIC drives
- to be a byte-swapping device.
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- It's easy to ``ln'' the "ns" (non-swap-bytes) to be, say, /dev/qic and
- /dev/nrqic [non-rewind-on-close] which is what I do.
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- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]
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