Re: tlug: statistics first try

[Manuel Chakravarty <chak@example.com>]

Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com> wrote,

> On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 03:51:36PM +0900, craigoda@example.com wrote:
> > 3) One trick is to use ncftp -u  
> > and login with your username and password.  Then, download the files
> > you want to edit to your local linux box.  ncftp uses a readline
> > type thing so it sends the entire command at one time.  This is 
> > faster than using an IP package for every character.   You can
> > have the FTP session open on the remote and local machines, then
> > treat the configuration file like a local file. 
> 
> Or even better, Emacs with ange-ftp, which will allow you to treat
> remote files as if they were local.

Although, ange-ftp is very nice, another very convenient
software for mirroring files and such is `rsync'.  It is a
kind of intelligent version of `rcp', which only transfers
the data that changed in the file (similar to a
`diff'/`patch' combination, which allows you transfer only
the changes between two versions of a file).  The lattest
version of `rsync' can also be used as a kind of file
server. 

  http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

For example, I have all my Web pages on my local machine,
where I edit and preview them.  Then, I wrote a small shell
script, which allows me to `rsync' the stuff to the
filesystem of the Web server.  This saves net-load and on a
slow link is much faster than ange-ftp. (Quite cool would be
a kind of ange-rsync for Emacs, but I have never seen
something like that.  You probably know this situation where
you changed a single character and without thinking typed
C-x C-s and Emacs starts to transfer that 100KB file over a
ultra-slow link...)

I also use `rsync' to sync my desktop and NotePC machine.

Manuel


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