[ On Thu, January 21, 1999 at 16:07:25 (-0800), Joe Rhett wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: How do I sz/rz under an ssh connection?
>
> Wow. Who needs functionality when almighty arrogance will do instead?
>
> You miss the point. Every single one of your examples forces me to log out,
> transfer the files I want, then log back in again.
Wait a minute here. If you have to "log out and log back in again"
around each transfer then you're doing something wrong. SSH, like rsh
before it, and even FTP, works perfectly fine, in parallel with your
current login session. It should be possible to invoke it from either
end (though if Unix is at one end and not the other there may be some
advantage to invoking it at that end all the time).
This should all be possible even if you're connected to your local
computer with a "dumb" terminal. Of course if you've got any kind of
multi-"window" environment at your "workstation" then you should be able
to have one or more a command-line sessions running on each end (even
with multiple slogin connections!), and life will be even more exciting
and versatile (and of course this kind of environment can be emulated
using job control or tools such as screen on Unix clients).
SSH is a _network_ tool, not a modem tool. It need not be restricted to
opening one connection at a time or even to transfering one file at a
time (that's just a limitation of bandwidth and latency).
--
Greg A. Woods
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