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From: ted@welch.jhu.edu (Ted Ying)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: Does anyone have a tar or cpio that will use remote devices?
Summary: pdtar can use remote devices
Keywords: pdtar uunet.uu.net
Message-ID: <3547@zorba.Tynan.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 90 03:30:44 GMT
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>In article <3534@zorba.Tynan.COM> uunet!acdpyr.ucar.edu!fredrick (Tim Fredrick) writes:
>[]
>"On our SPARCstations, dump is capable of remote-mounting a tape drive on
>"another machine by using the option "f user@machine:device".
>"
>"Does anyone out there have a version of cpio or tar that will also remote-
>"mount a device on another machine, preferably using a similar "user@machine"
>"syntax?
>
	pdtar which is available by anonymous login from uunet.uu.net
	works exactly like tar with an additional feature.  It allows you
	to specify remote devices using the "-f host:/dev/devname" option.

	Ted Ying			ted@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu

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