Thanks for all the replies. It turned out that the last reply was exactly
the one that I needed---it appears that the Sun stuff works and the only
reason that the DEC stuff operated the way that it did was that it was
(conveniently) broken.
Here is the original request:
> We have our Exabyte mounted on a DECstation running Ultrix and are having
> problems with restore. There doesn't seem to be a problem extracting
> a specific file (or listing the contents of the tape file) but when running
> interactive from a pipe it appears that no keyboard input is received by
> the program.
>
> I did not find a patch relating to this and was hoping that someone would have
> some useful information about this.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Kevin
And here is the response that worked---thanks, Joel!
> From: shandelm@jpmorgan.com (Joel Shandelman FIMS Information Systems - 212-648-4480)
>
> Try:
>
> rsh -n tapehost "dd if=/dev/rst0 ibs=126b " | restore if -
>
> 1) The -n option to rsh is key
> 2) substitute your proper device parameters for mine
>
> -- Joel
The other replies were from:
eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de
wallen@cogsci.UCSD.EDU
guy@auspex.com
jeg@ced.berkeley.edu
yonge.csri.toronto.edu:trigraph!briand@zoo.toronto.edu
Hopefully I didn't loose anybody's mail and not list them---if so, sorry and
thanks!
I appreciated all the help!
-- Kevin
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