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  From: Daryl Tester <dt@picknowl.com.au>
  To  : Darryl Merritt <darryl@dda.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:19:42 +1030 (CST)

Re: DAT tape

Darryl Merritt wrote:

> Is it possible for the one without the DAT drive to access the DAT drive in
> the other machine?

C'noath.  You haven't _lived_ until you've done a
"tar -tvf host:/dev/tape_name" :-).  Runs a program on the remote box
called rmt(8), using rsh from memory.  I use this to access an Exabyte
that sits on my Sun IPC at home.

man rmt(8), rsh(1), tar(1) (and I think rdump may use this mechanism
as well).

Regards,
  Daryl Tester