read/write tar/cpio tapes under dos

[Andy Toy]

In article <19397 at netcom.UUCP> feustel at netcom.UUCP (David Feustel) writes:
>The MKS Toolkit includes a TAR command which can be used to read unix
>tar files. The command will only read from /dev/mt0 so to use the
>command, create a /dev directory and mv your tar file to /dev/mt0.
>Kludgy, but it works. 

You should be able use the command:  tar xf file.tar

>I haven't figured out how to use this command to write a tar file yet.

Try: tar cf file.tar file1 file2 file3 ...

or:  tar cf file.tar dir1 dir2 dir3 ...
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