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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 22:17:20 +1000
Subject: Re: No os.copy()? Why not?
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On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> Slightly off-topic, but are there file systems these days which support
> off-line copying? =A0If I have a disk at the other end of a network link,
> it would be nice to tell the disk to copy a file and tell me when it's
> done.

Depends on your network protocol. One of the coolest and oldest tricks
with FTP is initiating a file transfer from one remote host to
another; I've never done it but it ought to work with localhost (ie
two sessions to the same host).

ChrisA