Subject: Putting compress files

From: Tito Flagella <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:52:00 +0200 (MET DST)

I'm trying to understand how to transfer compress files
and decompress them on-the-fly on the server. In theory this could be
done in a couple of ways:

1) Instructing the server to decompress the received file:

	ftp> !ls
	foo.gz
	ftp> put foo.gz foo

2) Letting the user to execute gzip on the server from the ftp client.

Is one of these solutions viable? Is there any other way to allow a
user with ftp but without shell access to the server, to transfer
compressed files and decompress them on the server?

Thanks,

tito.