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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: SCO tar formats - reading
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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 14:43:33 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
In-Reply-To: <199703301108.NAA08944@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Mar 30, 97 01:08:25 pm"
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> I have some floppies containing software (for the Jdyx graphics libarary,
> btw - kind of SVGALIB) and I would like to read it into my
> FreeBSD system but having difficulties with this. ALl I get is 
> skipping tar header....
> 
> dd if=/dev/rfd0a  | head :
> 
> 
> 0707070000010024670407000001440000010000100000000461715776200000200000000000.0707070000010024660407550001440000010000020000000463323247200000400000000000src0707070000010023551006440001440000010000030000000460235231000001200000000334src/asm.s       .file   "a.c"

It's interesting, but not a tar header.  It's nothing, but a ``cpio'' header
- as of my mind, and /etc/magic says.  So try cpio, or pax to read it.

Gabor
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