From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 11 17:50:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11650 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:50:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11609 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA15287; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:19:30 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA25336; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:19:24 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980812101924.Q22754@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:19:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Frederick G. Arioli" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TAR command from SGI ws to BSD References: <35D051EF.4F56@lmms.lmco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <35D051EF.4F56@lmms.lmco.com>; from Frederick G. Arioli on Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 02:15:14PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 11 August 1998 at 14:15:14 +0000, Frederick G. Arioli wrote: > I downloaded some Fortran source code (VAX) from 6250 bpi tape to a > Silicon Graphics UNIX workstation. I then tar'd the contents of the SGI > hard drive onto 4mm DAT. I took the DAT to my BSD box at home and > attempted to read the tape with tar -x. I get a message that BSD can't > recognize the format. Do I need to reorder the byte order to read the > tape from BSD? Possibly. Some SGI formats are strange. Try dd conv=swab. > Are there any Fortran 77 compilers around that will run on BSD? g77. It's in the Ports Collection. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message