Re: rdump from sun

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From: Dan Ehrlich
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 20:32

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In article <1333@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> pearmana@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Andy Pearman) writes:

Andy> What does rdump give you that dump doen't ?

Andy> Using dump I can dump to   hostname:/dev/mt0   etc etc.

Andy> Does rdump do something clever ?

Back in the early days when BSD was it, dump and rdump were seperate
programs.  Some clever soul merged them together.  If one checks, rdump
is a symbolic link to dump under SunOS.

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