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Article #28Re: tar format ended-ness
From: Dave Olson
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 06:22
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 06:22
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In <1992Dec16.052940.5406@gallant.apple.com> kiddyr@gallant.apple.com (Ray Kiddy) 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?
Tell the folks on the IRIX machine to use /dev/tapens instead of /dev/tape
when creating the tapes for export. There are long historical
reasons for this (software) byte swapping; see 'man tps' on IRIX systems
if you are interested.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!sgi!fido!zola!zuni!anchor!olson From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) Subject: Re: tar format ended-ness Message-ID: <tmsc7ik@zuni.esd.sgi.com> Keywords: tar, confusion Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA References: <1992Dec16.052940.5406@gallant.apple.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 06:22:06 GMT Lines: 16