Well cpio has parameters to swap bytes between big-endian and little endian machines AND it understands gnu tar format. No special device needed...
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, debian mail recipient wrote: > >Hi. We're having a problem un-tarring a tar tape in Linux that was >made under Solaris. I recall having the exact same problem when I tried >to untar a Solaris tape on an SGI. The problem was that one machine used >"little-endian" representations for numbers on the tape, while the other >used "big-endian". -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
