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From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
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Subject: Re: FTP transfer of tree structures
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Date: 4 Feb 91 14:53:01 GMT
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    p.s. Others of my critics claim that a safe and reliable way is to
    tar the dir structure; ftp the tar file; requires tar -x at receiving
    end. I've done this manually occasionally; never automated it. Cheers.

This requires scratch space.  Our PC/TCP and Sun's PC-NFS "Lifeline" add-on
both implement networked 'tar', if you have a 4bsd server that includes
'rmt' and 'rsh' or 'rexec' support.  Note also that 'rcp' could be made more
secure, if someone wrote a client that would fall back on 'rexec' and ask
for a password if the authentication for 'rsh' failed.  I'll hassle my
developers...

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