Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:14:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: tar.gz's via cu? Message-ID: <199507041514.RAA02114@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91j.950704045238.9606A-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> from "John Utz" at Jul 4, 95 05:01:04 am
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As John Utz wrote:
>
> as a result, i found myself rediscovering the sublime joys of cu.
> Can i use it to xfer tar files? It seemed to manage ascii patch files
> fine,but i get an odd error on the tar.gz that i have sent myself :
>
> 128: {41} cat rzsz-3.34.tar.gz | tar xzvf -
> incomplete literal tree
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. :--)
--
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. ;-)
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