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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> > There was another method of send/receive using hostname 'localhost'.  
> > Would it work to send temp.tgz this way instead of individual files?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Which way is less likely to introduce errors into files?  
> 
> They are exactly the same.  send automatically tars files and
> receive automatically untars them.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven

Thanks.  Did you write send and receive scripts yourself?
Your scripts have all run beautifully (except for a couple in BL3 with 
bold characters in them).  

We will be cloning linux shortly, to a 4G drive.  I will first uninstall
the five files used for compiling to shorten transfer time (transfer 120MB
less, then reinstall the packages.)

First we had to partition the linux drive.

Partition manager can create a linux partition but then it says this is 
not a recognized file system.  Odd.  It also says you can resize 
partitions but this means only to shrink them and you need to defragment 
first, which implies you can't resize linux partitions.

Partition magic does not allow resizing linux partitions.  If we try, it 
gives the maximum and minimum file sizes the same as the current size.  So 
I need to make some permanent decisions.

The 4G drive is in the computer with 82M RAM so we made one 164M partition
which can be used for BL1 and if I ever need a swap partition BL1 can be
moved.  The second partition is about 2G and the others about 1G each, and
will be used for running linux in, for compiled packages (tgz and
non-slackware) and source code, and if I ever switch over from DOS the
last one is for data, and I won't be mounting the last two in fstab, just
when I need them.  This should make finding other files faster.

BL3 if installed to hard drive should be able to share one of those two
partitions, and I could move source code and packages to the main linux
partition if I want to play with another operating system.

The other linux computers won't be used for compiling, and they have 1-2G 
drives which I might split in 3 - 128M BL1/swap, the rest mostly one large 
partition, and a smaller one to store packages and miscellany and/or BL3.

Does this all sound reasonable?

Only crazy people partition drives on a perfect spring day like this.

Thanks for all the advice,
Sindi