Re: SSH1 and large files on 32-bit platforms

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>> If the files are large you may want to compress them first to save

There's an extra | between your ''.

I am aware of the possibility of compressing ssh traffic in any number of ways. We have sufficient bandwidth so that compression only makes things worse. Many of our computers are relatively old and slow, which makes compression even more of a pain.

All of these tar/compression subtleties are totally irrelevant to whether files over 2 GB can be transferred over scp1 on 32-bit platforms. The real problem is that folks are not going to learn any alternative solutions anyway so large file support for scp1 would be rather desirable.

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