[wellylug] NETBEUI on Ubuntu

[John Durham]

Gerald Roehrbein wrote:
> Hello John,
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> the private mail I wrote is on hold. Probably your provider have some
> problems. So I post it to the list.
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> RSYNC on Windows
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> 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.
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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> kind regards
> Gerald
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> Am Mittwoch, den 18.10.2006, 09:40 +1300 schrieb John Durham:
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>> 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
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>> 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?
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I now have CWRSYNC. Still far from using it.