According to Giles Lean:
>
>dump/restore is not a portable format.  It sometimes works between
>different operating systems, but this is not reliable.
>

This is true - it gets worse because the dump format is endian
specific.  FWIW the NetBSD restore seems to have the smarts to spot a
dump that is byte swapped and DTRT (kudos to the person who did this,
whoever you were).  I have been able to read a dump tape written on a
Sun on a NetBSD box in the past.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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