Subject: Tar/Compress with wu-ftp

From: [email-masked] (Pulak Rakshit)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:55:56 +0000 (GMT)

Hi

I have just installed wu-ftpd, and find the product is great.
>From the documentation, tar/compress command seems to be 
supported with wu-ftpd. Is this the case. If so how should
I configure wu-ftpd so I can use these commands.

Thanks for your help.

Pulak Rakshit

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From: [email-masked] (Koos van den Hout _U nix and we all_)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:25:03 +0100 (MET)

> I configure wu-ftpd so I can use these commands.

Wu-ftpd uses tar and compress (and gzip) to do certain conversions on the
fly. One often-used possibility is to tar up a whole directory structure so
it is transfered as a single tar file. So if you have a subdirectory
'test', and you do a 

get test.tar

wu-ftpd will see there is no file 'test.tar', and then see if it can perform
a conversion of 'test' to 'test.tar'.

The rules for the conversions are in /etc/ftpconversions (the exact path
to this file is configurable).

                                           Grtx. KH

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