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Overview of `remsync' and friends
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   The `remsync' program allows for transmitting, over email, selected
parts of directories for trying to maintain up-to-date files over many
sites.  It sends out and processes incoming specially packaged files
using `shar', `tar', `gzip' and electronic mail programs.

   There is no _master_ site, each site has an equal opportunity to
modify files, and modified files are propagated.  Among many other
commands, the `broadcast' command sends an update package from the
current site to all others, the `process' command is used to apply
update packages locally after reception from remote sites.

   The unit of transmission is whole files.  For now, whenever a module
is modified, it is silently synchronized only if it has been modified at
only one place.  The merging has to be done at the site where the
discrepancy is observed, from where it is propagated again.

Internals
How `remsync' works
Quick start
Quick start at using `remsync'

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