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From: charleen@deimos.ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: rdist tells me it's changed file sizes
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Date: 14 Jun 89 22:38:16 GMT
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I was using rdist to copy a set of files from one Sun server to another,
and I get this:

rdist:/foo/foobar: file size changed

So I compare the original files to the new versions and, lo and behold,
the new ones are smaller.

What's happening here?  Thanks for any help.

Charleen

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