[ILUG] Is is possible to mount a DAT as a drive under linux/u nix?

[Matt Rudge]

> tar and cpio are published standards.  they aren't 
> "proprietary."  not to
> mention there are a slew of programs that implement the tar standard,
> and quite a few that implement cpio.

Should have known better than to use the word "proprietary" on a linux
mailing list (d'oh).  Just checked my dictionary and, sure enough, it didn't
quite mean what I'd always thought it meant.  I should have said that the
format was *specific* to the program that wrote it - e.g. the problem that
Conor is having.