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OK, that answered my question perfectly. Thank you very much for the info.

I'm using an IBM RS6000 running AIX 5.3. Currently I can only attach a dumb terminal to it to log in at the console or use terminal emulation software to connect to it remotely via my pc. What I...

I managed to figure it out. After creating the tape directory and trying a few different combinations of the switches I finally got it with using wildcards.

cpio -AvicdumkB -I/dev/rct0...

Didn't notice that you left out the leading slashes. Amazing how you manage to overlook the smallest things when you get used to doing things a certain way. I'll try it again w/out the leading slash....

I typed in the command as you had it in your response and it restored the directories but not the file in those directories. I even tried a variation of that command by putting the file name, so it...

I apologize in advance if someone else has posted a similar question and I overlooked the answer in the forums, so here goes.

i'm using cpio to retrieve data from a tape and the switches i'm using...