On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:48:09PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Quoting Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > <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