xfer problems sco-sun

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:35:18PM -0500, Brian K. White wrote:
> I don't know an easy way around this unless it's possible to direct xfer
> output to a pipe instead of to a file.
> (maybe you can fake it with a named pipe?)
> an stream the output data over the network to the sun box and have xfer on
> the sun box read from a pipe instead of a file, again possibly via named
> pipe if it doesn't offer a real way to use stdin/out.
> 
> xfer attempts to do a job similar to "tar" and this is one reason why such
> things as tar and cpio can use stdin and stdout, so xfer should too. If it
> can't, I am saying it _should_ and requesting that it be updated at some
> point.
> stdin/out could then be piped across network or serial by unlimited
> different mechanisms.

I think you might be able to use a named pipe and netcat, yeah.

Cheers,
-- jra
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