From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 31 15:34:25 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA06432 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 31 May 1995 15:34:25 -0700 Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.125.110]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA06426 for ; Wed, 31 May 1995 15:34:21 -0700 Received: by main.statsci.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0sGwLC-000r3uC; Wed, 31 May 95 15:34 PDT Message-Id: To: adrian@virginia.edu cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: ftp'ing a tar onto tape? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 May 1995 16:19:27 -0400." Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 15:34:13 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is there some way to controll the blocking from the ftp server, > so that this works? How about something like this: ftp> get docs.tar "|dd of=/dev/nrst0 obs=10240" Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org