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Re: Help with tape drives and 3B2s....

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From: Jim Webb
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1986 02:29
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Before people start jumping down my throat, let me explain more on
this:

> What would really be nice is to have nisend be able to interactively
> read stdin and write across the net so you could do something like this:
> 
> 	find . -print | cpio -ocm | nisend -d vax -f "vaxtape"
> 
> If you could do this, no disk space problems would present themselves.

Obviously, this does not work too well now, as you would need an awful
lot of disk space on the 3b2, twice as much as the amount you are backing
up.  By interactive, I meant that the nisend would read its stdin and
transmit it as it is reading it.  If it could do this, it would not have
to buffer it in a file somewhere.  The "host" command available on
vaxen using the DEC HSC disk controller allows this.
-- 
Jim Webb             "Out of phase--get help"          ...!ihnp4!hropus!jrw
		"Use the Force, Read the Source"
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Subject: Re: Help with tape drives and 3B2s....
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Date: Sat, 18-Oct-86 22:29:42 EDT
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