[daip] old aips data

[Joe Cammisa]

greetings, eric, and pardon me for interrupting you with my (hopefully)
trivial aips problem.

i find myself asked to retrieve some old aips data from tape.  the tapes
in question are of the dds2 variety; i doubt it will be especially
difficult to locate a dds2 tape device and attach it to my linux server. 
however, i'm pretty sure that the data on the tapes was written by a sun
server, so i have my doubts on whether or not it will be binary compatible
with my linux operating system.  does this depend upon the type of data on
the tape?  and if i do indeed have a binary compatibility issue here,
would you have any suggestions on how i might successfully migrate the
data from the tape to my ext3 filesystem?

many thanks in advance for any advice you might have on this matter.  kind
regards,

-joe

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  Joe Cammisa
  Networking & Systems
  College Information Resources
  Haverford College

  phone:  1-610-896-4239
  email:  jcammisa at haverford.edu