On Wed, 7 Sep 1994, VampLestat wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 1994, Mr. Wizard wrote: > > > to ftp 4.5 megs? I've ftped some really large files (I'm sure I've done > > over 4.5 megs at one time), and its never taken nearly that long. > > depends on the speed of a connection... if its a ppp connection on a 9600 > baud modem, well ... True. Guess I'm lucky we have a better setup. > > > mail to send the .tar.Z? or should I just try to compress again, assuming > > > I did something wrong? > > > > Sure you can mail it. Just do: > > mail [address of person] < [filename] > > Your sysadmin's gonna love that one. Mailing a 4.5 meg BINARY file. > Good way to clogup/kill a mail system. Good point. You should ask your sys admin what your mail system can handle. Again, I guess I'm lucky our setup here can handle such requests. > And now back to our regularly schedualed mud discussion ... > > > _O_ Ryan L. Watkins e-mail: vamp@csulb.edu > | Academic Computing Services url : http://www.acs.csulb.edu/~vamp/ > | CSU Long Beach - Network Support pgpkey: finger vamp@gothic.acs.csulb.edu ##=====================###================================================## || Joshua Sky Barrow ||| Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Science || ##=====================###================================================## || 19 Central St., #28 ||| "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. || || Somerville, MA ||| If you can dream it, you can become it." || || 02143-2834 ||| Unknown || ##=====================###================================================## || (617) 666-0859 ||| E-mail: jsbarrow@fas.harvard.edu || ##=====================###================================================##
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