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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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