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Re: [cobalt-users] ftp a .tar.gz as ascii or ftp?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] ftp a .tar.gz as ascii or ftp?
- From: "Nico Meijer" <nico.meijer@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Jul 11 22:41:17 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Hoi Colin,
> This is (maybe) a dumb question, but necessary to ask. Pardon the
bandwidth
> usage :-)
Man, couldn't you find this info elsewhere? ;-)
> I need to ftp a file.tar.qz file off a machine. Should I ftp it as a
binary
> or ascii file???
Binary!
Try wget'ing it from another Linux machine, it'll do the transfer in binary.
For integrity's sake, make a md5sum on the file on both ends to see if all
went well.
> Oh lest I forget, the data currently resides on a Cobalt machine! <laugh>
Doesn't matter which machine it is on. Cobalts will do nicely. *ducks*
Doeg... Nico