Re: Problems tranfering files over shell link (ssh).

[Christian Dysthe <christian dysthe net>]

On Mon, 05 May 2003, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Perhaps bug in debian schould be filled?
>
> We should do bs=1; data going to shell
> by mistake seems extremely dangerous to me. 
>
> > Actually, dd is a bad choice for the remote command because it ignores
> > incomplete reads, but there is no other widespread utility that would read
> > a certain amount of data and then stop.  I hope I'm missing something, but
> > I asked in the mc-devel mailing list and nobody could come with anything
> > better than dd.
>
>
> head -c ?

Being a mc user without coding experience, any hope I will be able to 
use MC for recursive ssh transfers in the future?
> -- 
>                               Pavel
> Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need...
                                                                                    
                                                                                                              
                                                                                  
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