Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:05:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Victor Rotanov <vitjok@fasts.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gzip Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961225220449.247E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961222161900.1465J-100000@server.fasts.com>
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On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Victor Rotanov wrote: > Not really FreeBSD question, but anyway: > how big is chance that 90meg .tar.gz archive that passed gzip -t test has > been changed because of errors during ftp transfer or because possible > disk errors? I would say, pretty good. That much data would be hard to pass without SOMETHING going wrong. It is these cases that the split(1) command was made for. :) Split it into bite-size chunks and send. This is what FreeBSD uses to make the bin.aa, bin.bb...archives for distribution. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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