Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!adm!rbj@icst-cmr.arpa From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Remote magtape Message-ID: <7128@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 13:14:47 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-adm.7128 Posted: Mon Apr 27 13:14:47 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Apr-87 01:52:22 EDT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 13 It's not a kludge, it's documented in the Sun man page :-). Writing is a bit harder, though, if you want to be able to do a 'tar r', since (quite logically) tar r does not make sense on standard output. Possibly, but `tar c' does. See the example (option f) in the man page. AI Group, Dept of Computer Science, lamy@ai.toronto.cdn (EAN) University of Toronto, Ont, Canada M5S 1A4 lamy@ai.utoronto (Bitnet) (Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell Life is a POPULARITY CONTEST! I'm REFRESHINGLY CANDID!!