*we* agreed on no such thing. I have no intention of risking a zip of any of these files, nor do i want to have to create alist. I want a direct uninterrupted transfer of the entire contents of my home directory here minus the shellworld programs themselves to a directory so created on the ftp area of my site to so store them as a backup. no one said anything about ziping anything. Tar was s mentioned before you came in this morning yes. On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > I don't know how sftp would be better? > > 1.) You can specify a file mask to transfer multiple files with scp. > > 2.) You can specify multiple source files with scp, and do so in one > command where sftp would require you to do one at a time if you didn't > use a file mask. > > And, didn't we agree that the better strategy would be to tar and either > bun or gun zip the archive first? > > Luke Davis writes: >> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Yelavich wrote: >> >>> The tools I am thinking of, are the SSH suite of tools, particularly one >>> command being scp. This command allows you to copy data securely over a >>> network connection, by means of encryption. >> >> sftp, might be a better option, for several files. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Chair > Accessibility Workgroup > Free Standards Group (FSG) > > janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
