Re: Speed up data transfer

2002-04-06 Thread Don Felix
1) Depending on file, you might be able to compress it before sending. 2) Does the file exist in both places, and you're updateing? Maybe you should look at rsynch, which essentially transfers just the differences. Don Felix "Kevin Old" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Speed up data transfer

2002-04-05 Thread Kevin Old
Hello all, I have some code that is doing the following: system( "rcp -p ${target} ${source}"); With target being the machine and file I want to get, and the source, where I want to put it. Sometimes these files can be 17+ MB in data and can take 20 minutes to transfer. I realize that this