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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: rdump from sun
Message-ID: <21897@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 May 91 18:42:44 GMT
References: <1991May20.165748.16663@news.cs.indiana.edu> <1333@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> <1991May24.112058.4368@lip.ens-lyon.fr>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
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In article <1991May24.112058.4368@lip.ens-lyon.fr> carre@lapin.ens-lyon.fr (Giles Carre) writes:
> In article <1333@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>, pearmana@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Andy Pearman) writes:
> |> 
> |> What does rdump give you that dump doen't ?
> |> 
> |> Using dump I can dump to   hostname:/dev/mt0   etc etc.
> |> 
> |> Does rdump do something clever ?
> |> 
> |>   Andy
> |>
> 
> It's fully the same command. rdump is a symbolic link to dump, and still
> exists for compatibility with old scripts. Dump now includes the remote cases.

Since we're cross posting here, let's note the while the Sun dump/rdump may be
links to the same program, the Ultrix ones, at least up thru 4.1 are still
different objects.  It is possible that rdump can/could do everything that
dump does, but I don't know if this is so...
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