Wahoo, Didn't know that so many people would jump in this thread, hehe. Thank you all for your tips, I just found that gFTP (which is quite buggy, though) supports SSH (much the same way sftp does, i think). For those interested, http://gftp.seul.org/ , no powerpc.deb yet, and no source either.
Thanks a lot to all of you /Hadess http://hadess.net Quoting Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:48:09PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Quoting Michel D�nzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > <snip> > > > > > I like sftp - the source should be in woody. > > > > > > > > > > If only it had some of the more advanced features of ncftp or > lftp... > > > > > > > > Hum, should do the job, anything can be better than scp anyway (I > don't think > > > > that any sane people have been using that). > > > > > > I use it :-) > > > > > > There are even more funny methods. Since scp1 doesn't work with > sshd2 and I > > > can't convince some people to use ssh1 or openssh, here's my > alternative: > > > > > > ssh host tar cf - files | tar xvf - > > > > Would gzipping or other compression work also ? Something like : > > > > ssh host tar cIf - files | tar xIvf - > > > > That is if the remote host has a tar installed that supports bzip2. > > Better: use ssh -C (gzip only) to compress everything. Bzip2 may be too > slow > (dial-in euros) to take much advantage of the increased compression. > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. > But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something > like that. > -- Linus Torvalds > >

