Subject: Re: sup.netbsd.org broken?
To: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 07/16/1999 19:17:59
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> > Funny, I just tried
> > # sup -vZ supfile.netbsd
> > and
> > # sup -Z -v supfile.netbsd
> > because
> >        -Z     The -Z flag overrides and disables the -z flag  and
> >               the compress supfile option.
> > but
> > SUP Using compressed file transfer
> > 
> > (and therefore had same problem)
> 
>   It looks like /var/tmp is full, and if gzip is trying to use /var/tmp
> for the gzipped file, it will fail.

My point was that -Z shouldn't try to compress...

Cheers,

Patrick