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Xref: sserve comp.unix.msdos:1555 comp.unix.bsd:8302 comp.unix.sysv386:25879 comp.unix.xenix.misc:474 comp.unix.xenix.sco:6288 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:522 comp.unix.sys5.r4:563 comp.unix.wizards:27719 Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.misc,comp.unix.xenix.sco,unix-pc.general,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.wizards Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!mmm.serc.3m.com!pwcs!hawkmoon!det From: det@hawkmoon.mn.org (Derek Terveer) Subject: Re: HELP! problem with tar PC <-> SUN Message-ID: <1992Nov25.172806.28259@hawkmoon.mn.org> Organization: Demi-Public System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1992Nov12.234822.1273@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 17:28:06 GMT Lines: 20 Dave Eisen (dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote: : : I don't know about Interactive or Intel UNIX for the PC, but you : can solve this problem easily enough on SCO Xenix. Tar looks for : information about the source device in the file /etc/default/tar. : dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU Esix SVR3.2 and SVR4.0 have the same file, /etc/default/tar, and i suspect that the other PC unixen have the same thing or something similar. One of my defaults for tar, as provided by SVR4 is: archive4=/dev/rmt/c0s0 20 42000 derek -- Derek Terveer Work: derekt@stpaul.gov +1 612 292 6009 Play: det@hawkmoon.mn.org +1 612 683 0413 "Big business and big government distract us with entertainment; they manufacture our consent while we destroy the environment."