On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, matthew green wrote:

>    But why is "rsh" in "/usr/bin" in this case? Is much more usefull especially
>    for remote tape access to e.g. restore a backup.
> 
> you can rcp an rsh binary over.

... and ld.so, and libc.so.*, and whatever else it needs.  But as I've
noted, that's unnecessary for remote tape access, at least with
dump/restore.  I don't believe tar uses it either, but I haven't checked
that one specifically.