Reading TAR and CPIO format SUN cartridges on a PC

[Robert Cape]

Date:     Thursday, April 7, 1988

From:     Robert Cape
Location: NCR Comten, Information Services

To:       The keepers of this knowledge

Subject:  Reading TAR and CPIO format SUN cartridges on a PC

I am posting this for a friend who doesn't yet have net access:
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With this equipment:

   NCR PC-8 (your basic PC/AT(tm) clone) with 60mb QIC-60 1/4" streaming tape 
        drive OEM'd from Colorado Memory Systems
        (The drive and controller info I have:
         60mb 1/4-inch streaming tape drive 
              Mfgr:  Wangtek
              Model: 55099EN24
              Ass'y: 30132-018 Rev.A
         Controller board (8-bit bus)
      	      Mfgr:  Wangtek
              Model: ? Rev.F3
              Ass'y: 30850-003
        )

Here's needs to be done:

        At least read (if not read and write) TAR- and CPIO-format tapes 
        produced on a SUN 3/260 with the above-described equipment.
  
Why?:
        To use said pc to read Postscript files off of SUN tape
        cartridges and dump them offline to either Postscript-compatible
        typesetters or 600 dpi laser printers in a graphics production
        environment.

I assume that the drive is likely compatible; the controller - who knows?
If the hardware is compatible, what's needed is the software.  The person
who wants to do this would like to do it under MS-DOS 3.x.  Software that
runs under XENIX would also be acceptable.
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Thanks,

     Bob

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