From d517b4194adc03e36e9d3ffbc35b122001b87550 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 15:40:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] We claimed tar(1) does not support remote devices.  This is
 not the case for GNU tar.

---
 handbook/hw.sgml | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/handbook/hw.sgml b/handbook/hw.sgml
index bbadc0d51a..dc368da47f 100644
--- a/handbook/hw.sgml
+++ b/handbook/hw.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Id: hw.sgml,v 1.66 1997-03-21 17:02:44 wosch Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: hw.sgml,v 1.67 1997-10-03 15:40:03 obrien Exp $ -->
 <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
 
 <!--
@@ -1166,8 +1166,13 @@ that are available from <tt>cpio(1)</tt>, but <tt>tar(1)</tt>
 does not require the unusual command pipeline that
 <tt>cpio(1)</tt> uses.  
 
-	<p><tt>tar(1)</tt> does not support backups across the
-network.  You can use a pipeline and <tt>rsh(1)</tt> to send the
+	<p>Most versions of <tt>tar(1)</tt> do not support backups across the
+network.  The GNU version of <tt>tar(1)</tt>, which FreeBSD utilizes, supports
+remote devices using the same syntax as <tt>rdump</tt>.  To <tt>tar(1)</tt>
+to an Exabyte tape drive connected to a Sun called komodo, use:
+<tt>/usr/bin/tar cf komodo:/dev/nrst8 . 2>&amp;1</tt>.
+For versions without remote device support, you can use a pipeline
+and <tt>rsh(1)</tt> to send the
 data to a remote tape drive. (XXX add an example command)
 
      <sect3><heading> Cpio</heading>