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- I'll add to that good explanation by saying that the net effect would be that
- if there were a Unix machine or other host with a tape drive on your
- network, this would allow you to issue a command to backup your
- PC to the tape drive on the other machine.
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- I'm in the same position - I'd like to use it, but I don't have time
- right now to make GNU tar work with winsock. Somebody (I don't recall
- specifics) has done a PC version that talks to ASPI scsi tape.
-
- >available in some versions of BSD Unix. GNU Tar comes with an implementation
- >of the rmt code, and the capability for the client to talk to it. The
- >communication takes place via sockets. In fact, when the original posting
- >happened I thought for an instant that a Windows/WinSock tar which did this
- >would be a Very Fine Thing Indeed - then I remembered that I wouldn't have
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