Luke Davis writes: > Yeah, but how is it listening? I'll have to read up on this, as I find One other tidbit I uncovered in my searches yesterday on this subject was a reference to the default tape device /dev--whatever I don't recall now. Is it possible this is such legacy code that the HOSTNAME:filename syntax literally points to the standard tape dev? I rather suspect this is the answer. > this interesting. The question being: can I fake rmt, with netcat or > perl? > > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > > >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." > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
