As I have said before, if I had a Linux setup of my own already this would be a different situation. However I do not, have many many reasons personally not to want to risk the second site for a compression transfer and prefer to error on the side of comfort in this case. hopefully when i want to take this data down from the second site to my own system I will have the setup space and no need for so much caution. Karen On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Steve, > > I have been thinking about why folks get so gun shy with respect to such > reliable technologies. I think sometimes it originates with the all too > common disasters that come from working in the DOS world, or Windows > world, where there has always been this utterly stupid and risky > business about "text mode" vs. "binary mode" for file transfers and > compression. Making the wrong choice here can really cause you to shoot > yourself in the foot. > > For me, one of the enormous advantages of saying bye bye to the > Microsoft atrocities is the ability to forget about that distinction, > text mode vs. binary mode. Data are compressed and uncompressed, > uploaded and downloaded, without ever once having to give a second > thought to those modes, which are nowadays only booby traps. > > But I have no idea how one overcomes being nervous about the matter. > Maybe we need a mailing list for "recovering MS-holics!" > > Chuck > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Steve Holmes wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Ahh this fear of compression! Can't say for sure about over the net >> between the two machines (shell world and your web host) but I know >> for sure that files transferred via a 56K modem are compressed in >> transit and then decompressed as they spill onto your computer so at >> the day you wish to pull those files down to a local machine of yours >> over the modem, guess what, compression will be there like it or not. >> If I were a system administrator preparing to transfer someone's files >> over to another location, I would use tar, compress it with the gzip >> or bzip2 option and ship that over and then do likewise to unpack it; >> no questions asked. This situation is 100% reliable! I havenever >> lost data in the 20 years I've been computing due to any file >> compression. Now since rsync has been discussed here as a viable >> method of transferring files and keeping them in sync in the future, I >> recall there being a "compress on the fly" option and I would >> incourage its use simply to move things more quickly. But that is an >> option in itself. > > -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (96% of Full) > Home page at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > Speakfreely address 24.105.197.112:2074 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
