Dear osf-managers,
Thank you for the wonderful immidiate responses I got from you.
After a long time I have been away from the gorup's disscusions, I'm back
using your help just to find that this group is still as wonderful as it
ever was.
Special thanks to those who replied to my inquiry :-
Brian Sherwood <sherwood_at_esu.edu>
Anthony D'Atri <aad_at_nwnet.net>
Paul Vickers <Paul.Vickers_at_barclays.co.uk>
Gerhard Kircher <kircher_at_edvz.tuwien.ac.at>
Bertrand Hutin <hb_at_o2tech.fr>
Benoit Maillard <maillard_at_atyisa.enet.dec.com>
My original message was :-
Hi osf-managers
I have a problem restoring a cpio QIC tape produced on an NCR 3xxx
system on my DU 3.2C. I have tried using the obsolete
'/usr/opt/sterling/usr/bin/cpio' as well and that didn't work. I have tried
using 'dd' to dump the tape to the disk and play with various blocking
factors conversion. That didn't work as well. I even tried using the cpio of
ULTRIX v4.4 just to face the same bad luck. Any clues ?
Thanks.
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The answers summary is :-
1 - Using GNU cpio. Which I did and that solved the problem.
** Note that When I used the cpio on the freeware CD I got with OSF/1
version 1.2 and tried to compile it on Digital UNIX version 3.2C I got
compilation errors which I could resolve commenting the lines containing
reference to "status.fileno" and "status.blkno" in the source file mt.c.
2 - Using the option -b with cpio. That didn't work out.
3 - Using conv=swab. That didn't work out when I extracted the archive with dd.
4 - "tar" is the better way to transfer files across different systems. When
cpio archives are created on a big endian system without '-c' option there
is no way to read it on a little endian system " Alpha, ULTRIX, Intel".
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Received on Thu Feb 29 1996 - 21:39:11 NZDT