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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Jack Wenger <info@bentreality.com>
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Jack Wenger wrote:

> Is there a way to do tar over a ftp link? I've got a Jaz drive on a Mac,
> and I'd like to be able to do that. My main webserver is a FreeBSD 2.2.2
> release box.
> No tape.

tar into a tgz file and ftp it to the Mac manually.

You might also look at the extended options such as --newer-mtime. Get
ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1
which has better documentation than the released tar.1

Danny