From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 9 00:14:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA19932 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 00:14:24 -0700 Received: from saul3.u.washington.edu (spaz@saul3.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA19926 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 00:14:23 -0700 Received: by saul3.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA14622; Sun, 9 Jul 95 00:14:17 -0700 X-Sender: spaz@saul3.u.washington.edu Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 00:14:16 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Joerg Wunsch Subject: Re: tar.gz's via cu? In-Reply-To: <199507041514.RAA02114@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Joerg On Tue, 4 Jul 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > As John Utz wrote: > > > > as a result, i found myself rediscovering the sublime joys of cu. > > Well, for sz/rz, this is a chicken-and-egg problem. Perhaps you > can untar and shar it to transmit it. But then: > > remote% sz foo.tar.gz > ~+rz > > ...will do the trick. > > (Nice joke: i'm writing this via `cu'. The above example started a > local `rz' for me. :--) so this works for u? files actually come over? i uuencoded the gzipped src for rzsz-3.34 and succeeded in getting it home and compiled. that was good. when i try to use it to xfer files in the manner u have described, nothing happens! Both sides timeout! could i have missed something when i compiled szrz? any thoughts? > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > tnx! ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life