Baslinux mailing list

[3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org]

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> so why did 'receive' not uncompress the .tgz file that I sent?

Because it was not designed to.  If you input a tgz to 
'send', 'receive' outputs a tgz.  The only uncompression 
that 'receive' does is to undo the compression that 
'send' did.

file -> pack -> local nc -> remote nc -> unpack -> file

Cheers,
Steven

____________________________
http://www.basiclinux.com.ru