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Remote compression/decompression

Is that possible?

         

Sinner_G

8:41 am on Oct 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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What I would like to be able to do is to compress my files locally (Winzip or some similar tool), then transfer them to my ISP and decompress them there. Or the same from ISP to local (e.g. for log files).

Anyone knows of a way to do that?

Nick_W

9:06 am on Oct 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Depends what kind of OS your server is running on and, what kind of access you have?

If it's a *nix system and you have SSH access it should be easy:

$> unzip file.zip

Nick

Sinner_G

9:10 am on Oct 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Windows NT and FTP... Guess that's not too good.

Nick_W

9:13 am on Oct 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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No, I don't think so ;)
I've never used a Win system but I'm pretty certain you can't do anything like that with the FTP protocol...

Nick

Sinner_G

9:17 am on Oct 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Was afraid of that. Well thanks anyway.