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From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: NFS Super users?
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Date: 3 Jul 89 11:40:20 GMT
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In article <1631@zen.co.uk> vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin) writes:
>HP don't support rdump!

They should and there is no reason why rdump is missing from HP-UX. We
took the 4.[23] BSD (r)dump and got it working on HP-UX. There's no real
problem (apart from the names of some #include files) since HP-UX on the
300 series uses the Berekeley fast filesystem and dump/rdump was written
specifically for this filesystem.

Perhaps someone from HP will explain why they chose not to give their
customers this particularly useful utility? It would have cost HP next to
nothing to provide rdump. 

		Jim