[ale] Tar from linux to Irix.

Rob nomad at netwide.net
Fri Sep 6 12:43:37 EDT 1996


I have created a tar to a 4mm tape on my linux machine.  I'm trying to
restore it to an SGI Indy...  It complains that it is a byte-swapped
archive and won't restore...  This is new to me.  The man page refers to
byte-swapping, but not how to restore it...  Anyone ever done this?

Rob
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