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From: jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: SCO Can't Read 8-mm Tape Written by Ultrix.
Message-ID: <1310@admin.mport.COM>
Date: 23 Sep 92 20:06:45 GMT
References: <BusMMF.12I@npt1.uucp> <1992Sep19.193954.1497@morrow.stanford.edu> <1992Sep22.153418.2197@sco.COM>
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Organization: Microport Inc., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 US of A
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also on this thread, i ran into byte swap problems importing data from an
sgi. you can use hd < /dev/tape | more to look at the byte stream.
you may have to use a byteswap option.

just a thought.

jack...
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