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From: dik@mcvax.cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Remote magtape
Message-ID: <352@zuring.mcvax.cwi.nl>
Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 10:23:21 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 25 10:23:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 21:15:50 EDT
References: <664@luthcad.UUCP> <2644@phri.UUCP> <15097@gatech.gatech.edu>
Reply-To: dik@zuring.UUCP (Dik T. Winter)
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In article <15097@gatech.gatech.edu> hope@gatech.UUCP (Theodore Hope @ LEGOLAND) writes:
 > I don't know if you'd consider the following a kludge, but I
 > use the following to read a tar tape on a remote machine:
 > 
 >    % rsh remote dd of=/dev/rmt8 ibs=10240 | tar xvf -	(tar bs of 20)
 > 
 > An analogous command can be used to write tar on a remote tape.
A problem with this is that you need an account on the machine with the
tape drive.  At our site we have a number of vaxen with different user
groups, but only a few of these vaxen have tapedrives.  This has been
solved, and we now have rtar.  I do not know the status of it.
-- 
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
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