Does anyone have a tar or cpio that will use remote devices?

[Mark Lawrence]

uunet!welchlab.welch.jhu.edu!ted (Ted Ying) wrote:
}   pdtar which is available by anonymous login from uunet.uu.net
}   works exactly like tar with an additional feature.  It allows you
}   to specify remote devices using the "-f host:/dev/devname" option.

I don't know if they're the same, but Gnu tar also supports the same
syntax.  Available at finer anonymous ftp and uucp sites everywhere...

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