Archiving Software

[Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner]

It was thus said that the Great M H Stein once stated:
> 
> And for the Unix gurus: if, as in Cromix, tar files are not ordinary files 
> (i.e. you ordinarily tar to a device, not a file name), how would one convert
> a tar tape to a file in order to transfer it? I could of course restore the tar file 
> to the HD and then tar it again to a file but that seems awkward. Could
> I just pipe the "un"tar back to tar (i.e. tar [device] - | tar - [filename])?
> How do you folks do this sort of thing?

  Either "cat /dev/tapedef >file.tar" or "dd if=/dev/tapedef of=file.tar".

  -spc (Had to do something similar to this when installing Linux on an
	old Toshiba laptop ... )