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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!usenet From: headleej@pyrite.som.cwru.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Help with tape retrival (0/1) Date: 14 Feb 1995 16:33:33 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3hqm0t$6t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soml12810.soml.cwru.edu X-Newsreader: AIR News 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) I am trying to download an 8mm COMPUSTAT data tape, it is formatted for universal charater. The only information I have to go off of is this: 1600 BPI 9 Tracks 1 Reel Would anyone have any idea of what to use to copy this down to a filesystem. I have tried cpio, dd, tar, and restore, but am not sure of the correct parameters for any to get this to work, and most I get a I/O errror and it quits. I am running a SUN SLC with an exabyte drive on /dev/nrst0... Thanks in advance, John Headlee