Pertec Tape Drive Interface Musings

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Tue Aug 4 12:16:50 CDT 2015


    > From: Chuck Guzis

    > BTW, what do you use to read UNIX v7 tar files? Linux/BSD modern tar
    > seem not to like the old archive format

I have a very slightly hacked version of the V7 tar, which runs under Windows
(under Cygwin). It read all the older TAR files which the newer TARs barfed
on. Is that of any use to you?

	Noel


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