reading sysV dist tape under 4.2

[John Robert LoVerso]

We run 4.2 on a few vaxes, and have recently gotten a distribution
tape for SysV.2.  Well, I can read the tape with dd and see file
headers, but I cant extract the stuff with tar.  The tape has a blocksize
of 5120, but even so:
	dd -ibs </dev/rmt12 | tar tvf -
doesnt work.  It gives checksum mismatch.

The whole point is that there are certain programs we'd like to use
from sysV - but dont want to convert one of our machines to sysV to
get them!

Any help on doing this would be appreciated.
Respond by mail; I'll post a summary.  Thanks!
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