From: Green, Simon (SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 03:46:20 EST
dd will work with anything, of course, but I'm not sure how useful it would
be.
pax will certainly work with tar files and might be worth trying, as it has
more options than the tar command.
If you're getting checksum errors, though, it suggests that the data is
corrupt.
Simon Green
Philip Morris ITSC Europe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle DeVault [mailto:adsmigmo@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: 22 November 2002 20:55
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: checksum error when reading tar tape
>
>
> Have a 3 volume tar tape set that produces checksum
> errors on the 2nd and 3rd tapes (of course, the file I
> want to pull off it on the 2nd tape, I think).
>
> Is there any way around these checksum errors? Have
> tried tar with -i flag, but still don't seem to get
> anything off of the second tape. Are there any other
> commands (pax or dd?) to pull stuff off of this tape?
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