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1.1     ! root        1: Title:         dsh (distributed shell)
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        !             3: Author:                Dave Presotto
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        !             5: Address:       University of California
        !             6:                Computer Science Division, EECS
        !             7:                Berkeley, CA 94720.
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        !             9: Net address:   presotto@berkeley (ARPA)
        !            10:                ucbvax!presotto   (UUCP)
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        !            12: Description:
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        !            14: Dsh works in two phases; bidding and execution.  The bidding is performed by
        !            15: starting a dbid program on all the requested machines (using rsh).  The
        !            16: dbid's send back bids using the ipc.  The dsh command then picks some
        !            17: subset of the bidding machines and runs the requested command on them,
        !            18: once again using rsh.
        !            19: 
        !            20: How to make it:
        !            21: 
        !            22: To make the distributed shell system perform the following:
        !            23:     1) make dsh - this is the program that the user uses to distribute
        !            24:        his programs.  See the man page for dsh.
        !            25:     2) make dbid - this program must be on every system which can have
        !            26:        user programs distributed to it.  It must be in the search path
        !            27:        of each user who wishs to use dsh. It is used by dsh to create
        !            28:        a bid on a particular system.
        !            29:     3) create a dshrc file - this is the default rc file for dsh.  It must
        !            30:        reside in /usr/lib.  It specifies the systems to attempt to
        !            31:        receive bids from.  Users may override this file by creating
        !            32:        .dshrc files in their home directories.

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