Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> 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.
Better: use ssh -C (gzip only) to compress everything. Bzip2 may be too slow
(dial-in euros) to take much advantage of the increased compression.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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