Gnu Tar and Rmt
Rudi Nunlist (rnunlist)
Mon, 9 Aug 93 17:17:22 PDT
I managed to get the Gnu tar and rmt (remote tape handler) to compile on
an X32 (CPU/3).
The Gnu tar has many useful options not found on standard tar, e.g. compression,
use of remote tape drives, multiple volumes, etc.
Rmt (must be in /etc/) allows manipulating a tape drive from a remote system,
e.g. using Gnu tar.
The files are in pub/nmr/unix/ucb/gnu/gnutar.tar.Z. I annotated all the changes
in the sources.
The tar binary is named 'gtar' to avoid conflicts with the regular 'tar'.
There is no man page(!), "info" has a discussion the commands and options.
One feature I could not get to work is using 'rexec' (rtapelib.c), so
for remote drives 'rsh' is used. Perhaps someone else can figure it out...
Regards, Rudi Nunlist