Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 08:29:33 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: spaz@u.washington.edu Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: tar.gz's via cu? Message-ID: <9507041429.AA22696@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91j.950704045238.9606A-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> (message from John Utz on Tue, 4 Jul 1995 05:01:04 -0700 (PDT))
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>>>>> "John" == John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> writes:
John> as a result, i found myself rediscovering the sublime
John> joys of cu. Can i use it to xfer tar files?
Sure, use rz/sz with it.
John> 128: {41} cat rzsz-3.34.tar.gz | tar xzvf - incomplete
John> literal tree
Hmm! This seems to be your plan ... :-)
John> that is a new one on me! it did it twice, and the file
John> explodes successfully on the remote system, so i dont think
John> the problem is with the original gzip file.
Try uuencoding it on the original system, then use the ~t command to
take the file from the other system. Uudecode it on your end and get
rz/sz working; you'll be much happier.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA
A power surge on the Bridge is fails to electrocute the user of a
computer panel, due to a highly sophisticated 24th century surge
protection feature called a 'fuse'.
-- One of 46 things that never happen on Star Trek
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