tar format ended-ness

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From: Ray Kiddy
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:29

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hello -

i just received a tar tape from someone using Irix and tar2local (sp?). 
i am trying to read it on a Sun4, but i am getting directory checksum
errors. when i do an od -c on the device, it looks like when it wants
the file name to be abcd (what it was to the Irix user), i see it as
badc, etc, for the length of the tape. given that tar is supposed to be
pretty platform-independent, why would this be occuring?

any e-mail would be appreciated, or punt, er, post it.

thanx - ray, ray@ganymede.apple.com

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From: kiddyr@gallant.apple.com (Ray Kiddy)
Subject: tar format ended-ness
Summary: why would irix tar byte swap a file?
Message-ID: <1992Dec16.052940.5406@gallant.apple.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:29:40 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc.
Keywords: tar, confusion
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