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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: Q: How to back up a DOS box to UNIX via Kermit?
Date: 1 Aug 1998 19:48:45 GMT
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In article <slrn6s5t9v.jqj.charlie@pc.antipope.org>,
Charlie Stross <charlie @ nospam . antipope . org> wrote:
: On Sat, 1 Aug 1998 09:50:45 +0100, Dr Eberhard W Lisse
: <el@linux.lisse.na> wrote:
: >
: >I'd look into something like
: >
: >kermit -k | tar cvfz backup.tgz -
:
: Tried it. It didn't work. Wrote a 45-byte header then died, complaining
: of something (that disappeared off the screen before I could read it).
: I suspect kermit -k just splats a series of bytes out, without any
: indication of which file those bytes belong to...
:
Exactly.
: ... not a very good idea when the objective is to create a viable backup.
:
Unless the incoming file is a tar file. See p.476 of the manual.
- Frank