Il 29/07/2011 01:44, Larry Baker ha scritto:
searching). I looked once more at the ASCII in the archive, and mentally
byte-swapped some of the strings that looked like they should have been
file names. BINGO! What looked like gibberish became words. I used dd
conv=swab on my Mac to byte-swap the file and, lo and behold, tar -tf
worked.
About the time the tape was written, we had a pair of VAX-11/750's
networked to a VAX-11/785. One of the VAX-11/750's ran BSD Unix. I don't
know whether there was a device name option to select byte-swapping
well, indeed is the NUXI problem...
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/N/NUXI-problem.html
now I'm curious of the cause of the bit swapping....
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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