Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Can Xenix read Sun 1/4" tapes ? Summary: I can do it Message-ID: <602@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 28 Sep 89 15:56:27 GMT References: <6@bronson.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 14 In article <6@bronson.UUCP>, tan@bronson.UUCP (Tan Bronson) writes: | | I've been able to write tapes which the Suns can read, but not | visa versa. For what it's worth I have been able to write cpio -c tapes on a Sun /dev/rst8 which work on Xenix. I *think* I did a tar tape, but that's not the format I usually run. You may have two drives which are slightly out of line, in opposite directions. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon