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  From: Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin@steadycom.com.au>
  To  : Nick Morrison <nickm@bhwb.nsw.gov.au>
  Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:01:59 +1030

Re: SCO problems again

Don't forget serial.
Sure, it's slow. But even at 0.1 mb/sec, that's 600 seconds for 60mb, or
10 minutes.
And it's very simple compared to most of your other stuff.
Just requires patience. But 10 mins enuf time to make a coffee ;)

TC

Nick Morrison wrote:
> 
> > Floppys are a possibility, but damned slow, when you're talking about
> > 60Mb of data... although, maybe we should check its size after a tar and
> > compress... then we'd need to make floppy sized files (tar can do this,
> > right?) and do the reverse on RedHat (Win doesn't like this kind of
> > thing, right?) and then ftp from RH to Win... what a mess...
> 
> I'm sure tar will allow you to create specific-sized files.  man tar, man.
> 
> Winzip for windows version 7+ reads tar.gz files.  Download the evaluation
> copy from www.winzip.com if you don't have it already.
> 
> And try the telepathy thing again.
> 
> Floppies may be your only option.
> 
> But - I'd try NFS anyway first.
> 
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