Yes, but there appear to be a number of advantages of patching on the host:

1. It doesn't affected interleaved files that are located in the same file 
space.
2. It is still *a lot* more efficient on network usage which converts directly 
to cost in our dial-up European situation.

Stuart.

On Thursday, October 26, 2000, at 11:51 PM, Colin 't Hart wrote:

> Stuart (and others), 
>  
> Have you tried rsync? It allows you to synchronise 
> files between machines (in a client-server type model). 
> I think the url is http://rsync.samba.org 
>  
> The other way we could try to solve this issue of doing things 
> on the server is to make ant tasks RMIable. 
>  
> Cheers, 
>  
> Colin 
>  

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