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From: dan@srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A quick /etc/rmt question
Message-ID: <894@srs.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 88 14:49:10 GMT
References: <886@srs.UUCP> <889@srs.UUCP>
Reply-To: srs!dan@cs.rochester.edu (Dan Kegel)
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In article <889@srs.UUCP> I wrote:
> Sun's documentation for /etc/rmt is a little misleading here.
> A space isn't allowed between the command ('O') and the argument (/dev/rmt8).

guy@Sun.COM, Ken Lalonde, and Steve Hayman all pointed out the following:
> It's even worse.  The *real* syntax for, say, "O" is:
> O/dev/rmt8
> 2
> There is a *newline* between the tokens, not a space.  There is no separator
> between the command and the first token.

Guy is also filing a bug report (and says that BSD's documentation is also
wrong).  
Thanks again for the help, folks!
-- 
  Dan Kegel   "... earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it."  - Goethe: Faust
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