Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:01:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Nathan Vidican" <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: unix tar for windows from DAT tape (was: unix tar for windows) Message-ID: <200102201701.MAA96499@mail2.wmptl.com>
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We need to read a tar archive from a Seagate SCSI DAT, (DDS 24gig), that was written using Sun Solaris/HPUX/SGI Irix, (obviously more than one tape - point being they are all written using tar). Normally we would un-tar these tapes from a sparcstation, using 'tar xvf /dev/rmt/0mn', we would like to eventually utilize P.C.'s instead of these machines. Two possible solutions include a- running some sort of Unix system, (FreeBSD or Solaris x86), on a dual-booting machine to un-tar the files from a P.C., or b- find some sort of utility that will allow us to read the tar-written tapes from Windows 95/Windows NT. The latter of the two solutions is preferable, so just figured I'd ask around to see if anyone knows of such a utility. We posted a similar request earlier today, but all of the replies received thus far are for utilities that will read tar files, (eg something.tar), which is not what our intent was. In short - need something to read unix tar DAT tapes from P.C. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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