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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tar no longer works? residual blocksize=n Date: 24 Mar 1996 23:11:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4j4krb$5tu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4inf97$6od@midway.evtech.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2521 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15865 travis@evtech.com (Travis Hassloch x231) writes: > A friend of mine is having trouble reading his old tar tapes he made > under NetBSD<1.1 -- it is giving some kind of block size error and > then saying "residual blocksize=n", where n is the blocksize he passed > to tar -b. I suspect the tape driver is expecting the wrong blocksize. I don't have an idea about how this can be setup in NetBSD. Maybe they're using the old st(8) program from the 386BSD times. (In FreeBSD, it's integrated into mt(1).) > Are tar files supposed to be portable across OSes? Yes, though tar != tar (there's a newer definition for the `ustar' format). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)