Renaud Pernet DEMIRM wrote:

>       Does anyone know a tool that would be able to open a DAT file and to
> read it even if the file damage. It eems like my file isn't closed on th
> tape because it was too big for the tape. So i would like at least
> recover the more I can.

What do you mean by a `DAT file'?

>       In the worst case, is there a way to open it using a c program with a
> sort of fopen or anything else. 

You just use the name of the tape drive (e.g. /dev/st0, /dev/tape,
etc) as the filename; this will work with any program which reads a
stream sequentially, e.g. `dd if=/dev/tape of=somefile'.

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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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