Hanno Böck <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 08 May 2017 12:36:19 +0300 > Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hanno Böck <[email protected]> ha escrit: > > > > > I'm not sure if anyone uses this feature any more, > > > > It is used regularly to access remote archives. > > Okay, may very well be, although I never heard of it.
Well, it has been introduced in 1981 in ufsdump/ufsrestore from BSD. gtar added support around 1990. star added support in 1993. Given that rcp and scp use a similar way for a remote notation, I expect that this should be known. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'
