On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:26:00PM +0000, David Roussel wrote: > Note that you can do the taring, zipping, copying and untaring > concurrentlt. I can't remember the exactl netcat command line options, > but it goes something like this > > Box1: > tar czvf - myfiles/* | netcat myserver:12345 > > Box2: > netcat -listen 12345 | tar xzvf - You can also use ssh... something like tar -cf - blah/* | ssh machine tar -xf - -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461