7. The Remote Tape Server

In order to access the tape drive on a remote machine, tar uses the remote tape server written at the University of California at Berkeley. The remote tape server must be installed as `/etc/rmt' on any machine whose tape drive you want to use. tar calls `/etc/rmt' by running an rsh or remsh to the remote machine, optionally using a different login name if one is supplied.

A copy of the source for the remote tape server is provided. It is Copyright (C) 1983 by the Regents of the University of California, but can be freely distributed. Instructions for compiling and installing it are included in the `Makefile'.

The remote tape server may need to be modified in order to run on a non-4.3BSD system.

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