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On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, Gordon W. Ross wrote:

> [...]
>
> Yeah, that's cool.  I wondered if there might be a way to use FTP
> but not have to store the tar images locally.  Would this work?
> 
> 	# mkfifo /dev/pipe
> 	# tar xfp /dev/pipe &
> 	# ftp ...
> 	ftp> get some_tar_image /dev/pipe
> 
> I haven't tried it with FTP yet...

Maybe better:
# echo 'tar xfp -' > /tmp/untar
# chmod 755 /tmp/untar
# ftp ...
ftp> get some_tar_image |/tmp/untar 

:)