Putfiles qua concept was never a "one size fits all" solution as I recall from my time programming things up.
There's a basic setup but the particulars between cases were always slightly different and I always ended up coding a slightly different variation depending on the situation. C'est la vie. On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, 18:34 Rob van der Heij, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 17:39, van Sleeuwen, Berry < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > Oops, is that also a PUTFILES that's generally available? Mine is the one > > I obtained from the VMTOOLS page. I didn't know any other version might > > exists. > > > > I for sure assumed the VMTOOLS PUTFILES package and I guess Kris also > > assumed I am referring to this package. > > > I figured that, but don’t recall ever getting a copy. The things we > discussed are part of why there isn’t a built-in program for it. I suppose > you could write a generic one that looks at data in flight and switches > between different approaches depending on the number of files and size of > chunks. But in the end you know better what is likely to happen. > > Rob > > > >
