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From: ken@rochester.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Native Vax FTP - Extension
Message-ID: <2179@sol.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 21:22:45 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 12 21:22:45 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 10:15:20 EDT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: Vax C, ftp, magtape
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|Does there exist a public domain source of ftp, running under native Vax C
|which is extended so it
|knows how to write files directly to magtape as well as to disk.

On our system (BSD 4.3), if the first character of the local file name
is "|" then the rest of the name is treated like a command to pipe the
file into. So you could "get foo |dd of=/dev/rmt8 obs=1024" or
something else you can dream up.

If you're using VMS, oh well...

	Ken