Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 15:36:38 -0400 (EDT) From: mathison@sara.cpb.org (Neil T. Mathison) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Basic Unix shell usage question (I think) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970508151853.2346B-100000@sara.cpb.org>
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Greetings,
I am attempting to use the vmsbackup utility and can not.
But I believe my trouble is more basic than with this utility
specifically.
I have a file (in this case a vms backup saveset) that I need to
feed to this utility. In an attempt to obtain a file listing os the
saveset I have tried the following (expecting behavior similar to tar)
vmsbackup -tf myfile.sav
vmsbackup -tf /dev/stdin < myfile.sav
cat myfile.sav | vmsbackup -tf /dev/stdin
all without success.
The error it reports is
myfile.sav | /dev/stdin: Inappropriate ioctl for device
By default vmsbackup is expecting a file through a tape device
/dev/rmt8. How do I feed a regular disk file into it?
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