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  From: David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Darryl Merritt <darryl@dda.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:08:11 +1030 (CST)

Re: DAT tape

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Darryl Merritt wrote:
> Is it possible for the [system] without the DAT drive to access the DAT
> drive in the other machine?

Probably; depends on what you mean by "access".  It's trivial to do things
like:
   $ rsh othermachine "cat /dev/tape" | tar tvf
or
   $ tar cfz - . | rsh othermachine "cat > /dev/tape"

I thing you're highly unlikely to be able to:

  $ /z-proj/bin/graph_buzz_data --scsi-unit 1  --skip-tape-file 2 --host othermachine

David