Peter Van den Wildenbergh wrote: > Joseph Szikora wrote: > > Using Mandrive 2007. I am trying to upload a number of files to my > > web space using ftp. I was successful to upload a tar but I can not > > untar it on the wremote. I used mput and put, using type ASCII and > > binary, but I got the message: command successful, could not create > > file. What is wrong? Can ftp used at all to upload files? I used > > ftp 15 years ago in the bulletin board times. Thanks for any > > answer. ============================================================== > > Untar locally and FTP files over ... I have all the files on my computer single and archived. I thought, that mput a tar file will unpack it on the server. I tried uploading individual files too, see message above. > > Do not have the right permissions on the webserver ? (run the tar > command / create directories files) yes, but if I am in ftp, I can't run tar xf... > > What is the "untar" command you use? tar -xvf filename.tar ... yes.
I printed out all the ftp man pages, but obviously, I am missing something. Thanks Peter. Joseph. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
