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Aucbvax.1849 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!gray@Berkeley Mon Jun 22 22:34:27 1981 restoring v6 tapes to 4bsd Mike O'Dell is right that restoring whole v6 dump tapes is a difficult problem. However, its quite reasonable to impliment just the x (extract) option. This way you have a way to get things from your old tapes. We have been prefacing our v6 dumps~Bwith nchecks - to help get inumbers. Anyway, i've got such a PWB/v6 restor program running on 4bsd. The main problems were changing int to unsigned short and the char *i_size1 to unsigned short. bob gray

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