Yeah, Gregory, the documentation is rather short on explanations but I finally figured it out. What is listening is rmt. I believe that's shorthand for "remote tape." Gregory Nowak writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:06:00PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > tar has facilities to read or write tar files automatically from > > other machines over the network; see the tar (1) manual page for > > details.) > > > > Yes, interested by your earlier post on this, I did just what this > excerpt suggests, and I did read through the entire man page. However, > while the hostname:f flag is mentioned, there is no mention of what > should be done on the other machine to listen for a connection from > tar. > > The man page does mention that the tar info page is the definitive > source, but I could never figure out how to navigate from node to > node in info pages. > > Greg > > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBW3uR7s9z/XlyUyARAroZAJ0Z/MlYw5Rc97bg6ovClpqiurEONwCeJ3MD > Ne8MkATEVBuCqBgM5IE5ewg= > =dXQX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
