Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!LNIC1.HPRC.UH.EDU!wescott From: wescott@LNIC1.HPRC.UH.EDU (Andrew M. Wescott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Sun Tar Tapes on Apollos Message-ID: <8909291348.AA03631@lnic1.hprc.uh.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 13:48:13 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 I know I've heard this discussed out here before, but I never thought it would happen to me! How can I read a Sun Tar tape written with /dev/rst0 on an Apollo node ? My local SE says it can't be done with the device (rst0) chosen by the Sun user that wrote the tape. Using tar tf /dev/rct8 gives "blocksize = 0" . Don't tell me to make friends with our Sun administrators. Thanks, Andrew Wescott University of Houston Department of Chemical Engineering