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Old 04-21-2008
How to ftp a pipe file

ftp> put 75384.DT.pipe
75384.DT.pipe: not a plain file.

ls -l 75384.DT.pipe
prwxrwxrwx 1 aaa staff 308 Apr 01 12:26 75384.DT.pipe

How to transfer this file to other machine?
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Old 04-21-2008
It's not a regular file; it doesn't make sense to transfer it to a different machine. You don't attempt to copy /dev/tty either.
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Old 04-21-2008
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Originally Posted by era
It's not a regular file; it doesn't make sense to transfer it to a different machine. You don't attempt to copy /dev/tty either.

Thank you. Do you have any description for pipe file?
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