Terminal emulation problem?

[Steven Chen_1]

Though it is SGI IRIX unix system, I still want to get some idea from HP guru:

I issue the command of
'tar tvf /dev/rmt/tps0d3nsv /tmp/abc' and the command finally went on to display what I want. But it does not return to prompt and you have to use Ctrl+C to terminate it to prompt sign.

There is no other problem using other command.

I am wondering if sth is wrong on teminal emulation.

Please help and thanks a lot.

Steven

[John Palmer]

It's possible that tar was waiting for the tape to rewind, how long did you leave it before issuing the kill?

It's unlikely to be an emulation problem.

[Steven Chen_1]

I waited for 10 minutes. It is a 2G DDS tape.

[Danny Engelbarts]

Hey Steven,

This has nothing to do with your emulation, tar will search the tape for any occurence of /tmp/abc before rewinding it and finally give you your prompt back, this can take 10 minutes easily! (specially if the tape is full)

Greetz, Danny.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

You will have to wait till it read the whole of the tape and it expect to contain the same file with different time stamps .Also make sure that u are using the device which has a rewind option so that it rewinds after it reads the whole tape.

[Rick Garland]

Gotta read and rewind the tape. Do the command again and wait for it to return back to you.

[Dennis Kennedy]

waz up!

forget waiting. Use local user. If you have to do it more than once then make a script off the tar and fire it off with
"script.sh &" and let it run on its own as a backround process. The process will tell you when its finished. Works on all unixs.

hope that helps
later,
D