From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 19:15:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252C216A4BF for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB04F44033 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3792BD40 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:15:46 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0E8F251836; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:46:40 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:46:39 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Frank Jahnke Message-ID: <20030926021639.GU32280@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1064527385.223.149.camel@zinfandel.fmjassoc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="finhkSr2yyrWw3ow" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1064527385.223.149.camel@zinfandel.fmjassoc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Conversion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:15:50 -0000 --finhkSr2yyrWw3ow Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 15:03:05 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: > I have an old 9 track tape that, as luck would have it, contains a > substantial amount of code that is now of interest to me. Does anyone > have a recommendation for someone who might either to transfer it to a > CD, or to make it available by ftp? The file contents are all in tar > format, written from a Sun cluster under SunOS in the Sun 3 era > (remember those days?) The biggest problem is to find a tape unit which can read the files. Do you have one? If so, what's it like? Given the capacity of such tapes, your best bet is probably to read in the entire tape to disk with dd, and then play around with it. If it's tar, you should be able to read it directly. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --finhkSr2yyrWw3ow Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/c6GHIubykFB6QiMRAsfEAKCwbpxutARi8y1WTroZAaLZeM67oQCfWz+U f3vdiAF1VSnzSA7c9vcwK7w= =puQR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --finhkSr2yyrWw3ow--