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From: charlie@pc.antipope.org (Charlie Stross)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Q: How to back up a DOS box to UNIX via Kermit?
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 11:16:41 +0100
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In comp.protocols.kermit.misc, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu wrote:
>In article <slrn6s4abl.ha5.charlie@pc.antipope.org>,
>Charlie Stross <charlie @ nospam . antipope . org> wrote:
>:
>: Is there some magic switch I can use to tell Kermit to create
>: intermediate directories as needed, or is there a script somewhere
>: to do just that? I want to preserve the directory structure of the
>: DOS box when making the backup ...
>:
>You need C-Kermit 6.1 and MS-DOS Kermit 3.16 for this -- both currently
>in Beta test. Is that what you have? Did you read the release notes
>for both Beta versions on recursive transfers?
I've got C-Kermit 6.1.193 Beta 05 at the Linux end, and DOS Kermit
3.16 Alpha 5 at the Win3.1 end.
I've checked the release notes; I don't _think_ I've missed anything, but
I still can't get it to create subdirectories on the receiving side.
send /recursive /binary *.*
from the DOS side to a UNIX server (receiving with /pathnames:relative),
still dumps all the incoming files in the same directory, instead of
creating subdirectories for each transferred file.
I'm mostly (a) starting kermit on the DOS box, (b) logging into the
Linux server, (c) starting C-Kermit on the Linux side, and (d) issuing
GET commands from there -- however I've also tried just sending files
from the DOS side, with the Linux kermit in receive mode.
Another thing I've tried:
CGET /recursive { cat | tar czf scratch.tar.gz - } *.*
doesn't work either. (This is GNU tar, which can read from standard input,
so I would expect kermit to get files recursively, pipe them through cat,
into tar's standard input, and tar to create an archive called scratch.tar.gz
on the receiving machine.)
Any suggestions?
-- Charlie