SCO Xenix tar reading SUN tapes

[Bill Campbell]

In article <87 at joymrmn.UUCP> root at joymrmn.UUCP (Marcel D. Mongeon) writes:
:I have a number of 60MB tapes which were written on a SUN. (I have
:no idea which one).  They were written in tar format.  When I use
:tar under Xenix 386, they come up as unreadable.
:
:Any help would be appreciated.
:
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You probably need to specify the full device as:
	tar -xvf /dev/rct0 ...

The device /dev/erct0 is error correcting and will not read tapes
created without the error correcting information.
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