From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 9:13:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A87F37B401 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:13:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BB61018C4; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:37:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B29F318C2; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:37:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:37:03 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Nathan Vidican Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unix tar for windows from DAT tape (was: unix tar for windows) In-Reply-To: <200102201701.MAA96499@mail2.wmptl.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The latter of the two solutions is preferable, so just figured I'd > ask around to see if anyone knows of such a utility. We posted a > similar request earlier today, but all of the replies received thus far > are for utilities that will read tar files, (eg something.tar), which > is not what our intent was. > In short - need something to read unix tar DAT tapes from P.C. Yeah... you need a piece of software to see the tape drive first in Windows... My opionin; as you said going to FreeBSD on that machine first would probally be the easiest first. Seagate software for Windows is notoriously hard to get a hold of, and once you do have it... it dosen't always work. :( Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message