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? -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.19% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
