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# A closer look at a remote spec

The following is a sample remote spec, describing a remote named `server-main-darwin`:

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    # A Helix Remote Specification.

    RemoteID:       server-main-darwin

    Owner:  bruno

    Options:        unlocked compress

    Update: 2014/11/21 08:21:32

    Description:
            A fairly complete set of the mainline code for the widget, with the
            test harness limited to the darwin platform. Fetch or clone from
            this remote spec if you want to build and work with the mainline
            widget code on a darwin machine.

    LastFetch:      default

    LastPush:       default

    DepotMap:
            //stream/main/widget/... //depot/main/widget/...
            //stream/main/widget-test/server/... //depot/main/widget-test/server/...
            //stream/main/widget-test/bin/... //depot/main/widget-test/bin/...
            -//stream/main/widget-test/bin/arch/... //depot/main/widget-test/bin/arch/...
            //stream/main/widget-test/bin/arch/darwin90x86_64/... //depot/main/widget-test/bin/arch/darwin90x86_64/...
            //stream/main/widget-doc/code/... //depot/main/widget-doc/code/...

The following table describes the remote spec in more detail:

Entry | Meaning
--- | ---
`RemoteID` | The remote identifier.
`Address` | The `P4PORT` used by the shared server.
`Owner` | The user who created this remote.
`Options` (`[un]locked`, `[no]compress`) | The `unlocked` option setting means people other than the owner can update the spec. The `compress` option setting means that when files are fetched or pushed they’re compressed, as a performance optimization. You would only set this option to `uncompress` if you were fetching or pushing binary files that were already in a compressed format.
`Update` | The date this specification was last modified.
`Access` | The date of the last push or fetch on this remote.
`Description` | A short description of the shared server (optional).
`LastFetch` | The last changelist that was fetched. If set to default, means no fetches have yet occurred.
`LastPush` | The last changelist that was pushed. If set to default, means no pushes have yet occurred.
`DepotMap` | The lines to map local files to remote files. The file paths on the left-hand side are on the personal server. The file paths on the right-hand side are on the shared server.

Remote specs give you the full power of P4 Server client view syntax. For details, see the section "Define a client workspace" in the chapter Configure clients in the P4 CLI Documentation.

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