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From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Anyone know where to get an ftpd that does auto .tar.Z?
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Date: 26 Nov 92 05:55:21 GMT
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In article <1f1oa2INNrg0@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes:
>In article <ByB10A.s7@ibmpcug.co.uk> gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>>Does anyone know where to get one of those clever ftpds that let
>>you get dirname.tar.Z and it does the tarring and compressing on
>>the fly as it sends the data?  It would be *really* useful here
>>and let us expand the archive even more...
>
>You can find the one that Wuarchive uses on wuarchive.wustl.edu.  It is

FWIW, it is in /packages as "ftpd.wuarchive.shar"


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