Hi folks;

This here is about as off the wall a question as you'll get on this 
list, but I'm having crawlies troubles with the x10 program 'heyu', 
which occasionally goes berzerkers, hogging the whole machine to 
its knees and making a 200 megabyte addition to its logfile in 
about a minute,  and in looking at that code which actually talks 
to the cm11a interface, it doesn't look anything like the well 
tuned code Jim Hines and I wrote in arexx for the amiga program 
ezhome.

Unforch, the closest I can come to reading the amiga program today 
is to recover from tapes the Diavolo Pro backup program made of 
this about 18 months back up the log.   The tapes don't appear to 
have been compressed, as so far all the filenames and string 
contents of  a file seem to be in plaintext english.  It appears 
there is a 1k tape header, two empty filemarks, then an 
approximately 9 meg index, which must be followed by a single file 
resembling a tarball as dd has now read over a gig without stopping 
at the next filemark.

So my question to the group once I've reduced this to a hard drive 
file, does anyone have any clues how one would go about untarring 
it since tar simply complains about obsolete base64 headers and 
goes away?

I'm sure that this index file contains all the info required to 
recover from the main, big file (its over a gig now and dd is still 
plowing along) but I've NDI how to parse it so I could drive a 
splitter util to break it up into filesized hunks.

Has anyone in a past life ever done this?

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Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
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