Re: How to read a tar dat-tape on VAX/VMS???

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From: Per Steinar Iversen
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 10:02

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This is from the Ultrix FAQ:

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36. How do I read a tar image from a TK50 tape if my only TK50 is on a VMS
        machine?

On VMS (assuming your tape drive on VMS is MUA0:) :

        mount/foreign/block=10240/record=10240 mua0:
        copy mua0: file.tar

On Ultrix:

        dcp -i 'vms::where$logical:file.tar' file.tar

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This concept works for any tape, I have used it to unpack tar-files from Exabyte
tapes. Generally I use FTP or NFS to get the tar-files across to the Unix side 
though, not DECnet. Also the tar-files can be unpacked under VMS by one of the
many tar-readers available for VMS.

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