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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 27 Mar 1997 17:53:00 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net>,
mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin) writes:
> Honorable Goatboy
> wrote on 19 Mar (in article <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com>):
>
> =[dos] piled on top of more crap [cm/1] IMHO) I got my ftp server set
> =up in less than 15 min, and it's just as fast and reliable as a linux
> =ftp server which took me about 4 months to figure out.
>
> Mmm... Does it support file/direcotries tarring/compressing on
> the fly?
[.....]
If you install the wu-ftpd port it does (although that takes a bit longer
to setup).
One comment - the original poster knows how it all works, so setting
it up quickly the second time doesn't really count :)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !