18 Dec
2005
18 Dec
'05
4:22 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great M H Stein once stated:
And for the Unix gurus: if, as in Cromix, tar files are not ordinary files
(i.e. you ordinarily tar to a device, not a file name), how would one convert
a tar tape to a file in order to transfer it? I could of course restore the tar file
to the HD and then tar it again to a file but that seems awkward. Could
I just pipe the "un"tar back to tar (i.e. tar [device] - | tar - [filename])?
How do you folks do this sort of thing?
Either "cat /dev/tapedef >file.tar" or "dd if=/dev/tapedef
of=file.tar".
-spc (Had to do something similar to this when installing Linux on an
old Toshiba laptop ... )