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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: using tar or cpio across network?
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On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Robert Chalmers wrote:

> does anyone have a sample script for using tar or and cpio across
> the network?  with rsh.
> I had rdump work once? but now it wont do it again. Just finds the
> end of tape and dies? damn.

You need to init the tape.  See section 10.5.9 of the Handbook.

rdump works fine here.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major