After much travail, I found a post in some ancient Asian language
(Japanese) and was reminded of Wolfgang's enblock. I didn't bother to
translate, but just did the enblock:
gunzip -d 2bsd.tar.gz
cat 2bsd.tar | enblock > 2bsd.tap
I attached the result, et voila:
tar xv0
tar: bin/ - cannot create
x bin/csh, 40412 bytes, 79 tape blocks
tar: bin/etc/ - cannot create
x bin/etc/htmp, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x bin/etc/install, 81 bytes, 1 tape blocks
The cannot create messages are filthy lies :).
That brought it all back to me - just like when I built tar from tape
for v6... sheesh, why does it have to be so painfully difficult to
remember these tricky bits?!
Anyhow, afterward, I went back, did the translation from Japanese to
English (or google did), and it was good stuff about how to apply
2bsd.tar to v6:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%…
Thanks for the help and patience.
Will
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