----- Original Message ----- From: "Carel-Jan Engel" <cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx> > Zhu wants to reduce his network traffic when he sends the compressed > file to Solaris. Ah! Dingding. Yeah, the compressed folder won't help much there. The only thing I can think of is to still use the compressed folder as a holding area to save some disk and use gzip/unzip piped to rcp (from cygwin or equivalent) to copy the compressed data across. On the Unix side the target/source can then be a named pipe withthe usual arrangements. That would work, wouldn't it? > network. So, maybe I have to agree with you, you are confused, as I was > ;-) welcome to my life!... :) Cheers Nuno Souto nsouto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l