Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!loverso From: loverso@sunybcs.UUCP (John Robert LoVerso) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: reading sysV dist tape under 4.2 Message-ID: <1133@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 00:17:19 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1133 Posted: Sun Feb 10 00:17:19 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 15:00:03 EST Distribution: na Organization: State University of New York @ Buffalo,NY Lines: 19 We run 4.2 on a few vaxes, and have recently gotten a distribution tape for SysV.2. Well, I can read the tape with dd and see file headers, but I cant extract the stuff with tar. The tape has a blocksize of 5120, but even so: dd -ibs