Re: Reading a tar file on a DDS tape in DOS/Windows

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:53

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In article <4k1ctn$sv4@steel.interlog.com>, Laurent-David Hasson
<ldh@interlog.com> writes

>  I have a 4mm DDS tape that contains a TAR archive made under UNIX. I want to 
>read it into my DOS/95 machine. I have looked at several TAR utilities, but it 
>seems that either they are specific to Adaptec adapters, or do no deal with SCSI 
>tape drives.

Quite a few of them require ASPI drivers but they are sourced with quite
a few non Adaptec cards, probably including yours.

GNU tar ought to do the job once you have ASPI loaded.


J/.
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John Beardmore

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