Did you eject and reload the tape between creating it and testing it? I'm wondering if maybe the tape was offline when you tried to verify it or if maybe the tape didn't rewind after creating the tar archive so when you did the verify it was reading a bunch of blank tape instead of the tar archive. later, Edward * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *