Subject: [989] conversions

From: Alexander Haiut <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 19:18:47 +0200 (GMT+0200)

Hi!

  I'm a newbie to this list, and maybe my question has been already
  discussed, so exuse me this fault..

  I've installed wu-ftpd 2.4 and it works fine, but I'd like to know
  if there is a possibility to extend its ''ftpconversions`` file to
  perform "on-fly" conversions from .Z to .gz (files compressed using
  UNIX "compress" utility to "gzip" archives) and vice versa.

  I haven't tried yet to look on source code of this daemon, so I do
  not know whether there are any limits for such conversions...

  The problem (as I can understand it) is that such conversion needs
  to run two programs through a pipe, like:

	"zcat %s | gzip -9" 	or    "gzip -cd %s | compress"

  Can anybody help me with this problem ? Waiting for your answer by
  e-mail to the list or directly to me ([email-masked]).

	Thanks!		Sincerely,
				--alex.

  Alexander L. Haiut
  Dept. of Computer Science		 	
  Ben-Gurion University, Israel
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