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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> You assume tar available on the other end and that tar would recode
> stuff.  As an example consider RSX-11M as a target. Your tar (if you
> find one there) would have to translate file paths into something like
> DK:[1,54]FOO.TXT (limited to RADIX-50 code set) and file bodies into
> FILES-11 records.

I'm glad I've never had to do that.

But if it's possible to transfer the files at all it should be possible
still to encrypt the transport layer.