Hanno Böck <ha...@hboeck.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 08 May 2017 12:36:19 +0300
> Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua> wrote:
>
> > Hanno Böck <ha...@hboeck.de> 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
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