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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!gumby!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!nosegoblin.css.itd.umich.edu!pauls 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? Date: 26 Nov 1992 05:45:38 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services Lines: 18 Message-ID: <1f1oa2INNrg0@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <ByB10A.s7@ibmpcug.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu Originator: news@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu 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 written for Ultrix 4.2. I looked at it and it looked like a pain to get it to work, but I'm not much of a programmer. Maybe you can do something with it. Paul Southworth | ftp ftp.css.itd.umich.edu (Not speaking for) | Political Archives in /poli Information Technology Division | Writable incoming directory on: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | redspread.css.itd.umich.edu <Representing myself. Everything I say is for educational use only.>