On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > Slightly off-topic, but are there file systems these days which support > off-line copying? If I have a disk at the other end of a network link, > it would be nice to tell the disk to copy a file and tell me when it's > done.
Depends on your network protocol. One of the coolest and oldest tricks with FTP is initiating a file transfer from one remote host to another; I've never done it but it ought to work with localhost (ie two sessions to the same host). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list