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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
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In article <6@bronson.UUCP>, tan@bronson.UUCP (Tan Bronson) writes:
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|      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