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:
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>Hi. We're having a problem un-tarring a tar tape in Linux that was
>made under Solaris. I rec
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-
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