Re: Unix to DOS/Windows Tape

Posted in 1997

Nick Nobbe — 5 Sep 1997 13:48:14 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On Fri, 5 Sep 1997 jryder@kdsi.net wrote: > I have a series of tape backups done "tapecopy' in Unix 3.2.2. How can > I read them in Windows/DOS machine? The "tar" programs generally > available don't read them. > I am desperate to recover these text files. > > Thanks Jryder, If you're sure it's a tar and not a dump, cpio, or dd tape, you'd better go back to the original Unix box and do a doscp to a floppy. Yours, Nick