August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
1000 pages
83h 9m
English
Source files must reside on or be mounted on the local host.
There is no easy way to have a special command executed only once after all files in a directory have been updated.
Variable expansion works only for name lists; there should be a general macro facility.
rdist aborts on files that have a negative modification time (before Jan. 1, 1970).
There should be a "force" option to enable replacement of nonempty directories by regular files or symbolic links. A means of updating file modes and owners of otherwise identical files is also needed.
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