From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: tar for DJGPP
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 10:03:56 -0600
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> Being at it: A while ago I asked about someone having built a tar
> based on sockets so that one can do a tar backup over network a la
> 
>    tar cvf server:/dev/rst0 dir
> 
> but didn't get an answer.

One would think, (as far as my limited knowledge of peer to peer servers
are concerned), that if you have write access to the server, one could
write the tar to it using the socket as though it were a drive?