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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Accessing remote tape drives
- Keywords: remote device programming
- Message-ID: <opu6qdo@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 05:18:44 GMT
- References: <86583@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <86583@netnews.upenn.edu> raines@dirac.physics.upenn.edu (Paul Edgar Raines) writes:
-
- | How does one write programs to access remote tape drives
- | such as 'mt' with machine:/dev/rmt/tps* ?
-
- With the remote tape library, which we will (finally)
- ship in the next major release. It is based on public
- domain code that can be retrieved from ftp.uu.net in
- the comp.sources.unix archives in volume 15.
-
- While we have made some changes, by and large it
- should just work, since we added a version # to
- match our changes, and default to the original behavior
- if no version # is present.
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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