From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 17:52:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA25117 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:52:13 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA25101 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:52:11 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA06334; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 02:52:08 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA12394 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 02:52:07 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA02114 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:14:03 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507041514.RAA02114@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: tar.gz's via cu? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 17:14:03 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Utz" at Jul 4, 95 05:01:04 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 714 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)