[ENBD] character devices?

Sebastiaan S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL
Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:00:58 +0200 (METDST)


Now that is cool
> > 
> >   ssh remote cat /dev/audio > /dev/audio &
> >   ssh remote dd of=/dev/audio < /dev/audio &
> > 
this too!
> 
> A simple rsh tower dd if=/dev/tty... bs=1|dd of=fifo bs=1

but for both methods I need a dummy fifo stream device, because /dev/dsp
does not exist on one computer, so that computer needs to put it's data
somewhere ssh or rsh can read it and send it through.

Just a simple device where data is stored and deleted once read.

Thanks very much!
Sebastiaan