On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 17:31 -0500, Doug Hughes wrote:
> if speed is paramount for the business process, and you can't enable NFS 
> on the linux server, you could:
> 1) try using ssh with cat (may not be any faster and may incur CPU overhead)
> 2) do a proxy agent that pipes the files directly over TCP from the 
> server to the client machine. (e.g. login to the server via ssh, and 
> then pipe the source file into something like netcat to send to a 
> programming running on the network client that receives the TCP stream 
> and turns it back into a local character stream). This could be 
> gradually improved to provide other needs like authentication or 
> parallel transport or whatever, but a simple, single, static file 
> transfer is relatively trivial.

number 2 is almost exactly what FTP does.

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