tar & mt problems
palkovic at fnalad.bitnet
palkovic at fnalad.bitnet
Tue Oct 31 09:33:20 AEST 1989
Environment: Sun 4/110 & 4/260 running SunOS 4.0.1.
I am tearing my hair out trying to read a tar format 1/4" cartridge
tape that was handed to me. It contains some software that was purchased
last year. I am trying to finish the installation. According to the
label on the tape there are three files. I need to do a "tar xvpf" on the
3rd file. So I use
example% mt -f /dev/nrst8 rew
and then
example% mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 2
which should position the tape at the beginning of the third file,
according to theory ( mt man page). Unfortunately when I enter
example% tar xvpf /dev/nrst8
tar begins extracting the files from the first tarfile on the tape.
Is this a bug in mt or tar?
John Palkovic
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dept. of Physics
and
Fermilab, Batavia, IL
phonenet: (312) 840-2374
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