From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 30 02:55:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA19673 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 02:55:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA19664 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 02:55:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA21752 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 12:55:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id NAA08944 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:08:25 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:08:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199703301108.NAA08944@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: SCO tar formats - reading Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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" gcc_compiled.: .text .align 4 .globl clear_video_memory clear_video_memory: pushl %ebp movl %esp,%ebp pushl %edi movl 8(%ebp),%edi Any clues how to get FreeBSD tar understand this format? -- Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de