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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:23:28 -0800
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dump dump.8 main.c
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:48:01AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> Would it be possiable/reasionable to add an out of band way to control
> this such as the existance of a file or a compile time option?  I ask
> because some backup systems like amanda don't do a good job of letting
> you specify arguments to dump since dump support is rather hardwired.

I'd like to see a DUMP_OPTIONS env var analagious to the
{GREP,DIFF,GCC}_OPTIONS we have already.

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