tar - versions? (SCO tape to RH7)

[Jeff Miller]

Maybe you could try

  dd if=/dev/st0 of=/var/tmp/tapeimage.dat

and then, with the raw data on your Linux
machine's disk, you could see if you could
figure out how to get at what's on there.
Start with

  file /var/tmp/tapeimage.dat
(is it a tar archive?  maybe it's gzipped or compressed?)

  strings /var/tmp/tapeimage.dat | more
(any clues embedded in readable ASCII text?)

  od -cx /var/tmp/tapeimage.dat | more
(or just look at a dump of the binary image)

and work up from there, once it's
clearer what exactly it is.

Jeff Miller
http://www.batnet.com/jmiller

----- Original Message -----
From: <cdlcruz at sonic.net>
To: <nblug-talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:40 AM
Subject: tar - versions?


> I am a newbie.  At work I manage some complex programs on SCO Unix System
> V/386 Rel 3.2
> Since SCO stopped supporting it in 1994, it has become obvious to
management
> that some upgrade path is needed.  I have installed Red Hat 7 on my own
> machine and am struggling to learn Linux as well as the old version of
Unix.
>
> To explore some of the options, I need to download a tape from the SCO
system
> to the RH7; same tape drive (Seagate Python).  However, when I try
'tar -xvf
> /dev/st0' the tape drive starts to whirl, then  RH informs me that 'this
does
> not look like a tar achive' then exits.
>
> Any suggestions?  I REALLY NEED the data that is on this tape.
>
> Catherine de la Cruz
> IT Manager, Wyvern Restaurants, Inc.
> cdlcruz at sonic.net
>
>