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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: could the rmt hooks be put into dd please...
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <fish.724521919@news.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 05:46:05 GMT
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- In <fish.724521919@news.gsfc.nasa.gov> fish@daacdev1.stx.com writes:
-
- | it sure would be nice to have the /etc/rmt hooks put in for
- | dd too - i think its great that they are there for tar and
- | mt and bru - thanx for at least the ones you've given us
- |
-
- No, it won't be done for dd; the remote tape access only
- works for devices in /dev, so it doesn't help much.
-
- In the next major release, the source to the remote tape
- library, and librmt.a itself will both be shipped, so you
- can write your own.
-
- | p.s you've jumped the gun by putting a ref to rmtops(3) in
- | the mt(1) manpage since rmtops isn't avail via irix yet,
-
- It has been there 'forever'. I was going to remove it in 4.0.5 finally,
- to be readded in the next major release, but I was afraid I
- might forget to put it back...
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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