Damaged TAR tape

[Danny Tsen]

In article <1990Feb13.171717.2902 at Solbourne.COM>, stevem at katmandu.Solbourne.COM (Stephen Matson) writes:
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>      I typed "tar -cvf" instead of "tar -xvf" I've lost some very
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>      Is there any way to recover the last half of the tape ?
I have done this before that I used dd to dump the whole tape and used a 
binary editor to get rid of the junk stuff.  Hope this help you.