Re: My briefcase equivalent [OT]

[Fabian Deutsch <fabian deutsch gmx de>]

Am Die, 2003-07-01 um 01.24 schrieb Sean Middleditch:
> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 19:11, dsr tao merseine nu wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:23:14PM -0400, Agrawal, Manish wrote:
> > > I am new to the Linux world, is there an application similar to the "My
> > > Briefcase" function in Windows to synchronize files between 2 machines? If
> > > not, is it likely to be available soon?
> > 
> > rsync should meet your needs. 
> > 
> > http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
> > http://rsync.samba.org/fom-serve/cache/1.html
> 
> You have to love how, when a self-labelled Linux newbie asks, on a
> Desktop Interface mailing list, how to perform a task, he gets an answer
> regarding command-line deep UNIX-foo tools.
> 
> Perhaps a more GUI oriented application would be in order.. (is there
> something for automatic rsync'ing in GTK/GNOME?)
> 
> > 
> > -dsr-

Yep there is a _great_ tool called unison with a GTK2 Interface, the
best thing i discovered in the last couple of weeks!
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

- fabiand