installp or updatep using remote tape?

[Chris Lopez]

dwight at watserv1.waterloo.edu (Dwight Aplevich) writes:
> 
> 
> It ought to be possible to use the installp or updatep commands to load
> products from a tape located on a remote machine, but we can't seem to
> get it to work, and TFM is not explicit on this.  Has anyone got these
> commands to work this way?
> 
> Our configuration: RS/6000 320 AIX3.1 3003. 
> The tape is on a networked 320 with tape drive.

My local rep said that there is no way to do this at the moment.  Being
able to do so would be worth ALOT to me.  (I wonder where we have to send
the chocolate chip cookies to get this implemented)

Chris Lopez
Institute for Learning Sciences
Northwestern University
lopez at aristotle.ils.nwu.edu