On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 02/03/2014 04:47 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote: >>> >>> >>> Start with the 'file' utility. It reads the first few bytes of the >>> file to tell you what's stored on the media. >>> >> >> Oh brother... >> >> It says ASCII text, with very long lines, with no line terminators > > That's rather interesting, in that it would appear that whatever > archive format they're using was designed to work on 7-bit > transmission systems. I would suggest posting the first 512 bytes of > the file, and let us puzzle over the format.
Reading a guide for cpio, it appears that the header for cpio archives is, indeed, ASCII text. Try: cpio -icdmv < /dev/rst0 (or whatever your tape device is) -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
