Reading tapes from sun

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <Z7g9N1w163w at darkside.com> swade at darkside.com (Swade) writes:
| I've got this tape that I got from a friend with a sun micro box
| but I can't seem to extract the tar archive in SCO UNIX System V 3.2
| tar just says that there is a tape error... Can anyone help?

  It has to be made on the Sun on /dev/rst8. If he used rst0 you can't
read it. You might try reading on /dev/rct2 on xenix, though, that's
another format and may match.
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