Does anyone have a tar or cpio that will use remote devices?

[Ted Ying]

>In article <3534 at zorba.Tynan.COM> uunet!acdpyr.ucar.edu!fredrick (Tim Fredrick) writes:
>[]
>"On our SPARCstations, dump is capable of remote-mounting a tape drive on
>"another machine by using the option "f user at machine:device".
>"
>"Does anyone out there have a version of cpio or tar that will also remote-
>"mount a device on another machine, preferably using a similar "user at machine"
>"syntax?
>
	pdtar which is available by anonymous login from uunet.uu.net
	works exactly like tar with an additional feature.  It allows you
	to specify remote devices using the "-f host:/dev/devname" option.

	Ted Ying			ted at welchlab.welch.jhu.edu

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