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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: convex-dump restored on other unix Date: 2 Mar 1997 22:41:21 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5fcvmh$jd@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <E697MA.8wE@discus.technion.ac.il> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36448 amihai@techunix.technion.ac.il (Amihai Silverman) wrote: > I have a tape written using dump at an old convex-201. > I do not have access to a convex machine, and > since the dump and restore formats are different at different > unix machines, I can't restore it. The dump tape format is not _that_ different, unless Convex has been inventing somehting of their own. restore(8) even has precautions for byte-swapping in case of a different endianess of the source and target machine. Have you ever tried to run `restore -t' anywhere? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)