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> <<On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:25:46 +0300 (EAT), <ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug> said:
> 
> > rdist is an interesting approach for keeping multiple machine upto date.
> 
> Unfortunately (and I can speak from experience) rdist's protocol is
> fairly brain-dead and runs in lock-step, thus dramatically bloating
> the time it takes to do even a null update on a large file set.  If
> there were another option that did what rdist does, I'd switch in an
> instant.
> 

CVSup? :)


Nate

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