SCO 2.2.1 tar question

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

haugj at pigs.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) writes:
| > jl42+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) writes:
| > | Hi. I'm running SCO Xenix SysV/286 v2.2.1 on an IBM PC/AT clone and
| > | I am having a bit of a problem with "tar".
| > | I want to tar off a filesystem as:
| > | 
| > | % tar cf - /pathname | compress | tar cfk /dev/rfd096ds9 720 -

| this must be an april's fools day joke of some kind.  the person (jay libove)
| who posted the original article has made too many mistakes for this to be
| simple stupidity.
| 
| first off, last time i checked there was no 96 tpi 9 sector device.  the
| only 96 tpi device was 15 sectored.

[ you have a defective copy of Xenix. It's in all of mine from 2.1.2
  forward.  You can create any combination of 8, 9, or 15 track, single
  or double sided if you can find a use for it.  It's minor device 36 on
  the system I'm using.  ]

| i suppose the correct response now would be `RTFM'.

[ no comment. ]

| - john.
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