Thanks, It may. While the Linux machine I have been waiting for nearly 6months or more seems to be nonexistent, I know more than a few people who use windows grin. Karen On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Sina Bahram wrote: > Fxp can be found at > > www.flashfxp.com > > Hope that helps. > > Take care, > Sina > > No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of > electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Karen Lewellen > Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 9:15 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: RE: Linux and data storage? > > hmm, > Let me be sure I follow you. > This is a program that runs in windows, that would let me move the contents > of my shellworld workspace, <i have ftp here too of course> to say the > storage on my website<where I also have ftp,> and that is not located on > shellworld? > if all this is true, where can i find this tool? > Karen > > On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Sina Bahram wrote: > >> If I may humbly suggest? >> >> Fxp, or flash xp as I think it is...is a windows tool that allows >> someone to connect to one ftp, then connect to the other ftp...and >> then say, FTP A, copy stuff to FTP B....then all you have to do is sit >> back and let the data packets flow...it doesn't go through your system >> at all: so you could transfer information at any speed, only limited >> by the two ftp servers, not by your own connection. >> >> *shrug* is there a linux equivalent to this tool/protocall? >> >> Take care, >> Sina >> >> No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large >> number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca >> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] >> On Behalf Of Chuck Hallenbeck >> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 8:51 PM >> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >> Subject: Re: Linux and data storage? >> >> Karen, >> >> You have two bottlenecks, seems to me. One is your connection speed, >> the other is nettamer. You can use "tar" on your ISP's system to >> aggregate those precious files into one archive, assuming you have the >> space, and then move that archive somewhere. Nettamer could retrieve >> it with its ftp facility, but it might take forever over a dialup link. >> >> If you had a linux desktop, you could use an ftp client on your >> desktop, call it "system A", to move files from "system B" to "system >> C", assuming you had the necessary access permissions and such. >> >> Also, you could email stuff to yourself with attachments, although >> nettamer is a little weird about attachments, and then you have filesize > limits. >> >> Finally, if you had a Linux desktop and a high speed connection you >> would be home free. Just grab all those files quickly with an FTP >> client, move them to your desktop, and burn them to a CD if you need to. >> >> My Linux system uses two 40 GB disks, one of which is used extensively >> to backup stuff on the other. Not exactly a raid system, but heavily > redundant. >> I do use CD backups too once in a blue moon. >> >> Your DOS desktop has limited HD storage. A Linux desktop would not. I >> have a DOS partition of 500 MB on each of my two 40 GB hard discs, >> just in case, but have not booted into DOS in several years. For my >> own situation, I cannot imagine ever being able (psychologically) to >> return to DOS and Nettamer. >> >> Chuck >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
