tar broken on SX-1100 ? (Un*x on Univac 1100 series)

[Dan Davison]

SUNY at Stony Brook has just recently received a binary-only UNIX
for the Univac 1100 series, called SX-1100.  The people at the comp
center in charge of the thing haven't seen Unix much before.
Now the problem.  I've got a tar tape which cannot be read on SX1100.
It reads fine on a V7 system, so the problem is not the specific 
tape. (I'll check my other tar tapes tomorrow; I expect the same
result.)  Has anyone out there run/know of where someone might
be running/ know rumors of where someone might be running SX-1100?

Technically, it appears the problem is that the SX-1100 creates
a "demand" run (interactive to the rest of the computing world
outside of Univac) => on the 1100 Exec operating system, which
reads the tape and writes a file, and then tells SX-1100 tar to play
with the file.

Well, tar can't do anything with the file; even in verbose mode
it just hangs.  
If it's of any use, SX-1100 is a port of system V (not known whether
R2 or not).  It also has many Berkleyisms in it.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.  The alternative
appears to be to dump the tape in octal and then feed the file
to a SX-1100 program which writes it back out in ascii. (This is
to get rid of the Univac file headers and trailers and other
assorted baggage.)  They also don't have UUCP working on the system
yet (they got it three weeks ago & are very understaffed), so please
note the various mailboxes below.

Thanks in advance,

dan davison
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