From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 07:31:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA26205 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 07:31:10 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA26199 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 07:31:08 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA15257; Tue, 4 Jul 95 08:27:06 -0600 Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA22696; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 08:29:33 -0600 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 08:29:33 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9507041429.AA22696@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: spaz@u.washington.edu Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: (message from John Utz on Tue, 4 Jul 1995 05:01:04 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: tar.gz's via cu? Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "John" == John Utz 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