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In article <1992Dec16.052940.5406@gallant.apple.com> Ray Kiddy,
kiddyr@gallant.apple.com writes:
>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.

You will need to use 'dd' to swap the bytes.

Try:

dd if=/dev/tape of=<diskfile> conv=swab

This will swap the order of the bytes, and give you as file which tar 
will read.

Alternatively, if you want to bypass the disk tar file try

dd if=/dev/tape conv=swab |tar xvf -

James Petts

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