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Gnu-tar and /etc/rmt: tar cvf remote:file fails

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralf Beck)
Thu Nov 30 04:24:12 1995

From: Ralf Beck <ralf@rbsoft.sdata.de>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:04:42 +0100 (MET)
Cc: ralf@rbsoft.sdata.de (Ralf Beck)
Reply-To: rbeck@aragon.bb.bawue.de

Hi all,

I was trying to use Gnu-tar from an HP-UX machine and Linux /etc/rmt together.
The tar -c option seems not to work for remote files because the O_CREAT flag 
to open() is coded numerically differently on both systems.

So, is this intended? Any help appreciated ...

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