Subject: bin/1888: use remote devices from mt
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@grizu.fh.uni-regensburg.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/04/1996 20:57:10
>Number:         1888
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       use remote devices from mt
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan  4 22:35:03 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Hubert Feyrer
>Organization:
FH Regensburg
>Release:        1.1
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD grizu 1.1 NetBSD 1.1 (INSTALL) #0: Fri Nov 24 13:47:14 EST 1995 chopps@coffee.emich.edu:/exp/src/sys/arch/amiga/compile/INSTALL amiga


>Description:
	it's possible to access remote divices through the
user@host:/path-syntax with tar & dump. It would be nice to have this
possibility with mt, too. :)


>How-To-Repeat:
	mt -f root@othermachine:/dev/nrst0 rewind

>Fix:
	eeeeeeh, sorry, no time for coding here. But i think it's dead
easy, just ripping the code from tar or dump and place it there.

>Audit-Trail:
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