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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: How Do I read a FreeBSD tape under Linux? (tar)
Message-ID: <id.TR5N1.BP1@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <mbramwel.1683.304E2134@ardsley.business.uwo.ca>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 17:46:44 GMT
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In article <mbramwel.1683.304E2134@ardsley.business.uwo.ca>,
Mark Bramwell <mbramwel@ardsley.business.uwo.ca> wrote:
> Does anyone know what the command line is for untarring a FreeBSD tar tape on 
> a linux system?

Try "dd if=/dev/rmt0 bs=whatever | tar xvf - ...."
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