dumpfs (1M) ?

[a.e.mossberg]

In <12742 at dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, <earleh at eleazar.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>     Might I suggest tar?  It's a little bit more work, and you have
>to make sure you don't run off the end of the tape, but you can create
>archives with it.  I have used something like:

>% tar cf - /dirname | compress | rsh otherhost "cat > /dev/tapewhatever"

>     If you really want to squeeze bytes on your tape, you could
>substitute "dd" for "cat" and use some large block size.  Maybe you
>should use "remsh" also.


Especially since using 'rsh' will give you a restricted shell rather than
a remote shell!  Also, you're assuming that compress was installed by the
user, since with 1.0 that isn't included. (it does come in /usr/ucb under 1.1).


>     Hint to Apple:  Anyone buying a UNIX box is not going to be
>exactly thrilled with the presence of manual entries for non-existent
>programs.  A year later, I am still reeling from the shock.


Nor was I particularly about things present but not documented, or spurious
files apparently designed to trick people into thinking A/UX was better than
it actually is (e.g. the presence of /etc/printcap but no lpd, man pages for
the ms macros but no ms, etc, etc).

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