Re: Informix tape tar error on IBM RS/6000

> You should know 2 things to succesfully complete the job: > > 1. your device setting (using smit) should be correct. especially > compression and block factor should be right I tried to unset compression. It cannot work too. I set block factor = 0. A engineer who is in Taiwan told me "0" can auto detect the block factor which tape you want to tar. And I tried 0,1,2,...20. On one can work. > 2. the AIX tar command syntax is: tar -xvf ... So: In spite of what is > common in the Unix community IBM want us to specify the - sign and > if you don't you wil not be properly informed about that under AIX > > I thing the - informt of your options will do the trick in combination > with blockfactor 0 or some factor that equals the size of 20 tar blocks > No matter "tar xvf" or "tar -xvf". They got some errors. -- Madeline Wu from Taiwan...........