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> I've never seen different OSes with compatible dump formats.
> Your ``at first glance'' comment intrigues me; is there something I've
> missed?

HP-UX and SunOS, for one, had dump formats that were close enough that
you could restore a HP dump on a Sun, and vice versa. (Assuming you
knew what you were doing - they disagreed on the definition of block
size, for instance.)

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no