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A bug with tar <--(please put the name of the program here)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shjao@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Dec 20 10:51:58 1988

From: <shjao@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 88 10:51:26 EST
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Continued from the previous report:
On m11-116-12 :
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M11-116-12% tar cfv /dev/floppy .
a ./2.073/homework1/hw1.f 4 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/t.prn 13 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/c.prn 11 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/dhw2 1 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/output-hw2/Accurate-forward-Beta=0.02 76 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/output-hw2/Accurate-forward-Beta=0.05 31 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/output-hw2/Backward-beta=0.1 16 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/output-hw2/Backward-beta=0.5 4 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/output-hw2/Backward-beta=1. 2 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/output-hw2/Backward-beta=2. 1 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/output-hw2/Backward-beta=5. 1 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/output-hw2/Forward-beta=0.1 16 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/output-hw2/Forward-beta=0.5 4 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/output-hw2/Forward-beta=1. 2 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/output-hw2/Forward-beta=2. 1 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/output-hw2/Forward-beta=5. 1 blocks
a ./2.073/homework1/hw2.f 5 blocks
a ./2.073/homework7/hw7.f 3 blocks
a ./2.073/homework7/hw71.f 7 blocks
a ./2.073/homework7/hw72.f 8 blocks
a ./2.073/homework7/dhw7 1 blocks
a ./2.073/project/EfromU.f 2 blocks
a ./2.073/project/PDcmp3.f 8 blocks
a ./2.073/project/iripfd.f 8 blocks
a ./2.073/project/m3c6.f 2 blocks
a ./2.073/project/search.f 2 blocks
a ./2.073/project/shear.f 9 blocks
a ./2.073/project/FuncS.f 1 blocks
a ./2.073/project/testRR2.f 2 blocks
a ./2.073/project/testPDcmp3.f 3 blocks
a ./2.073/project/testEfromU.f 3 blocks
a ./2.073/project/testAngle.f 3 blocks
a ./2.073/project/g1.PIC 6 blocks
a ./2.073/project/g2.PIC 13 blocks
a ./2.073/project/paper.mss 68 blocks
a ./2.073/project/cmd-shear 1 blocks
a ./2.073/project/dshear 1 blocks
M11-116-12%            
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I wait until the red light button is out ( but still with a 
lot of 'sd2 HARD ERROR: compare error' messages when the aobve were copied )

and then try

M11-116-12% tar xfv /dev/floppy
tar: tape read error: I/O error
M11-116-12% 

The floppies are formatted with IBM-RT with the right command.

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