Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!dclemans.falcon From: dclemans.falcon@mntgfx.mentor.com (Dave Clemans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Questions about DOMAIN/IX who and tar Message-ID: <1988Dec1.104235.15160@mntgfx.mentor.com> Date: 1 Dec 88 18:42:34 GMT References: <1716@bouwsma.oakhill.UUCP> Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon Lines: 15 From article <1716@bouwsma.oakhill.UUCP>, by tomc@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Cunningham): > > Also I cannot get tar to work with the cartridge tape. I have tried > /dev/rct8 and /dev/rct12 (the only reasonable-looking device entry points > for the cartridge tape), but in both cases tar says it cannot open the > device. Have I failed to configure something properly, or am I just missing > something? A sample tar command I use from within csh is: > tar cvf /dev/rct8 . . > Try using an Aegis command first (for example, /com/rbak -dev ct -rewind). Before doing that I usually see problems like you describe; after that everything works fine. dgc