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From: egisin@orchid.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: File Transfer SYSV.0 --> BSD4.1 :-(
Message-ID: <12257@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 88 02:53:51 GMT
References: <288@mergvax.UUCP> <1935@bsu-cs.UUCP>
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In article <1935@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> >I have approximately 300 Megabytes of data that I need to transfer
> >from a Unix System V.0 machine to a VAX 11/780 running BSD 4.1.
> 
>      tar | kermit ...... kermit | tar
> 
Don't be ridiculous. That would take more that 8 days.
(a 780 won't do more than 400 bytes/second with kermit).