Forgot one comment. After mt rewind, you have to mt fsf #, where # is a tape file number, to get to the start of the #'th dump on the tape.
Then if you had followed the suggested reading, that tapefile contains a file header that must be skipped. It does no good to do a skip=1 to the first tape file, that is not a dump file. It is the tape label file. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)