Re: Rescueing a DLT tarball on a Mac

Wolfgang.Schelongowski_at_gmx.de
Date: 11/09/05

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    "Maury Markowitz" <maury_markowitz@hotmail.com> writes:

    >No, I haven't tried file -- I'm pretty newbie to all of this so I'll
    >have to try that next.

    Then try it.

    >Someone suggested the easiest way to know for sure is to do another dd
    >with the block size set to some huge number and copies=1.

    You want to issue 'mt setbl 0'.

    > He also noted that if the software uses variable-block-sizes
    >(which it can) then I'm in for some serious pain.

    See above, that ought to work, too. Note the 'ought'.

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