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Subject: partial archive recovery
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There were programs in (I think) comp.sources.unix about 8 years ago
to handle this problem.  "targ" and "tarl" were the program names, to
extract and list, respectively, damaged tape archives/images.  I have
found them very useful in instances of degraded media.  Unfortunately
I only have the SunOS4 binary right now.

Can someone forward this info to the orginal inquirer, Gianmarco
Giovannelli, whose mail address was not part of the digest?

//alk