[Bug-tar] network support built in to gtar..

[Brent Verner]

Hi,

  I've had a little netcat/tar piping script that I've found _very_ useful,
which leads me to the question: Would it make sense to build network support
directly into gnu tar?  I think it would be really nice to say something
like this...

on the destination host:
  tar xvf net://$HOST:$PORT

and then, on the source host:
  tar cvf net://$HOST:$PORT [files ....]

where 'x' would create a tar listener on the specified host:port and 'c' 
would cause data to be sent to the specified host:port.

  I haven't dug into the source yet, but ISTM that this should be fairly
straightforward to add.

comments and/or thoughts?

cheers.
  b