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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?
Date: 26 Nov 1992 05:45:38 GMT
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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.


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