Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:19:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Frederick G. Arioli" <frederick.arioli@lmms.lmco.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TAR command from SGI ws to BSD Message-ID: <19980812101924.Q22754@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <35D051EF.4F56@lmms.lmco.com>; from Frederick G. Arioli on Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 02:15:14PM %2B0000 References: <35D051EF.4F56@lmms.lmco.com>
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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
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