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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:59:45 -0800
From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk>
Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>,
	Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cp MAKEDEV /dev - on a system with devfs
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:25:16AM +0000, Paul Richards wrote:
> Garrett Wollman wrote:
>> 
>> <<On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:38:22 +0000, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> said:
>> 
>>> There's one real oddity in FreeBSD:
>> 
>>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel      13 Jan 28 13:42 rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt*
>> 
>> The pathname of the `rmt' program is a fundamental part of the `rmt'
>> ``protocol'' such as it is.  We've been over this one many times.
> 
> Maybe the time's come to just deprecate rmt, I'd be surprised if there
> are many people still using it.

You don't have Digital Unix system do you?  I use rmt all the
time because I couldn't get amanda to work on a 64-bit OS
a few years ago.  rmt works and so I've haven't tried any newer
versions of amanda.

-- 
Steve

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