TAR DOES NOT SWAP BYTES

[John Quarterman]

>I think the problem is with the 3B20 tape drive, not with "tar" on the 3B20.
>Some tape controller (which I think they've junked in favor of a sane one)
>imposes a rather small minimum block size; "tar cb 20 ..." exceeds this
>limit.

The limit is 10, and you also have to specify the blocksize manually
when extracting a tape, as well as when writing one.
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