[wellylug] NETBEUI on Ubuntu

[Gerald Roehrbein]

Hello John,

the private mail I wrote is on hold. Probably your provider have some
problems. So I post it to the list.


RSYNC on Windows

You can use CygWin (www.cygwin.com) to get a running Windows rsync.
CygWin give a "Linux" shell under Windows. It's just nice. I do not use
the command.com or cmd.exe shell's for years. It's worth to install and
use.

There is a precompiled release available via the CygWin
installer. If you install CygWin (that's really simple) you have to
choose all packages. The default installation installs only a base
CygWin and no SSH no RSYNC etc. 


RSYNC is just based upon standards. It will compile at almost any OS
able to run a gcc compiler. 6 month ago I've compiled rsync for a
proprietary UNIX (MP-RAS, Teradata from NCR) and this was not a problem.
So it's something I would call a generic tool worth to know.





kind regards
Gerald









Am Mittwoch, den 18.10.2006, 09:40 +1300 schrieb John Durham:
> Gerald Roehrbein wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > there are two other solutions you could use to descrease the complexity
> > of copying files from one computer to another.
> >
> > If you develop at one system and want to deploy files you should install
> > and configure rsync. With rsync it is possible to automate file transfer
> > and keep files synchronized.
> >
> > Another way is to use a source code control system (SCCS) and copy the
> > packages create with the SCCS to the destination, probably from
> > development to stage test, extract it and than test it.
> >
> > The next idea is to mount a remote file system vi NFS and than you can
> > treat them like local files. There are NFS server for Windows available
> > (in the X-WinPro package for example).
> >
> > During software development I always write makefiles having an install
> > routine which copies all required files via scp, rcp and rsync to the
> > destination system.
> >
> > Now you should have some solutions to get a more efficient way to copy
> > files from a source to a destination.
> >
> >
> >
> > kind regards
> > Gerald
> >   
> This was my first choice because of your recommendation. On reading up 
> on it, there appears to be a requirement to run rsync on both machines. 
> Since one of them is windows XP, that would only work if there is a 
> windows version. Do you know of one?