[TriLUG] Ot: File Transfer

[Tanner Lovelace]

If it's text, just compress it before transferring it.  OS X
comes standard with gzip.  Also, copying it over to an
NTFS formatted drive should work fine.  Historically,
you've had to worry about resource forks in files, but
resource forks, although supported in OS X, are now
deprecated and in any case, unlikely to be on a text file.

Cheers,
Tanner

On 6/16/05, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just had a client ask me a few questions about file transfer and I
> wanted to ask everyone for ideas on the best way to handle the
> situation:
> 
> They are a 100% Mac shop and they want to transfer me a 16Gb text
> file.  If I have a dedicated T1 and so do they, how long might the
> transfer take assuming that I download the file from their ftp server?
> 
> If I were to use my 30gb notebook usb drive, (that I currently use
> with my XP machines) could they just plug it into their systems and
> copy the file over?  I think that the drive is formatted with ntfs.
> (This may be a silly question but I know nothing about Mac's, their
> filesystems, etc...)
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark.
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