Subject: Re: delete-file & probe-file on directories
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:59:02 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <9ImdnVAm0N5r9XrfRVn-1g@speakeasy.net>
Antony Sequeira  <myfullname@hotmail.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Peter Seibel wrote:
| >  b) When parsing namestrings for a "unix-host", namestrings are parsed
| >  in a way that is "culturally compatible"[1] with Unix. Since there is
| >  no notion of file hosts as part of file names in Unix file systems
| >  there's no syntax that makes sense to a Unix head for notating such a
| >  thing.
| scp does use user@host:/path/to/file
+---------------

As does "rsync". And "tar" uses "host:/path", e.g.:

    tar cvf my.dom.ain:/dev/nrmt1 .


-Rob

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