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From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: rtar, rdd ??
To: pgiffuni@biblioteca.campus.unal.edu.co (Pedro F. Giffuni S.)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 00:03:35 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.960626121903.19198A-100000@biblioteca.campus.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro F. Giffuni S." at "Jun 26, 96 12:24:28 pm"
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It seems that Pedro F. Giffuni S. said:
> My UNIX Administration Handbook says(refering to rtar, rmt, and rdd): 
> "These three programs were not distributed with 4.2BSD or 4.3BSD, but 
> were posted to the net. They are so widely used that they are sure to be 
> on future Berkeley releases."

rtar you don't need because the GNU tar we use already  support it with the
hostname:/dev/rst0 syntax.; rmt we have in /usr/libexec  (with a symlink in
/etc for backward compatibility), and rdd can be emulated with rsh/ssh.

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #11: Thu Jun 13 11:01:47 MET DST 1996