Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

[Sven LUTHER <luther@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:48:09PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 hadess@writeme.com wrote:
> > Quoting Michel Dänzer <daenzerm@student.ethz.ch>:
> > <snip>
> > > I like sftp - the source should be in woody.
> > > 
> > > If only it had some of the more advanced features of ncftp or lftp...
> > 
> > Hum, should do the job, anything can be better than scp anyway (I don't think 
> > that any sane people have been using that).
> 
> I use it :-)
> 
> There are even more funny methods. Since scp1 doesn't work with sshd2 and I
> can't convince some people to use ssh1 or openssh, here's my alternative:
> 
>     ssh host tar cf - files | tar xvf -

Would gzipping or other compression work also ? Something like :

     ssh host tar cIf - files | tar xIvf -

That is if the remote host has a tar installed that supports bzip2.

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER