From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 8 12:36:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA14919 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 May 1997 12:36:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sara.cpb.org (sara.cpb.org [198.187.60.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA14914 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 12:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sara.cpb.org ([198.187.60.3]) by sara.cpb.org (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA30810 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 15:36:41 -0400 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: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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?