From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 21:14:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16B237B401 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1L5EN718645; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:14:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Nathan Vidican" , Subject: RE: unix tar for windows from DAT tape (was: unix tar for windows) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:14:23 -0800 Message-ID: <001f01c09bc5$2706e600$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <200102201701.MAA96499@mail2.wmptl.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG tar98 from http://www.objectfusion.com/ will read and write tar tapes on Windows NT from a tapedrive on the NT system. Never used it, YMMV Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Nathan Vidican > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 9:02 AM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: unix tar for windows from DAT tape (was: unix tar for windows) > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message