managers,
 It is amazing...
 a problem is identified, discussed and solved within 30-40 minutes! 
PROBLEM: (not anymore!)
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How do I archive/retrieve a list of files (say, listed in listPB) 
on to DLT tape?
SUMMARY:
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Thanks to Sophia Liow <Sophia.Liow_at_cmis.CSIRO.AU> 
Her suggestion of
$ tar cvf /dev/nrmt1h `cat listPB`
works fine for me to archive as well as retrieve!
Thanks to all other respondents (see below)
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Ian Mortimer (mortimer_at_physics.uq.edu.au) and
Paul Tyler <pct_at_ansto.gov.au> suggested the following:
 tar -R listPB -cvf /dev/nrmt1h
 tar -cvf /dev/nrmt1h -R listPB
 I got the following message but the files were not archived:
  rec          1: listPB
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Frank Gallacher(franx_at_oas.telstra.com.au wrote) suggested
 tar -cvf /dev/nrmt1h -R./listPB
I got the error message:
 tar: unrecognized option `-.'
 tar: rec 0: Unknown option.  Use 'tar --help' for a complete 
 list of options.
Thanks to everyone!
Bhaskaran
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