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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
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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