zipping a file on an FTP site

[Jay Vaughan]

> No. Zip it on your own machine (presuming you still have the original 
> fie) and upload it again. FTP is just that: file transfer protocol. It 
> doesn't do anything other than transferring files. The 'S' in SFTP 
> simply means 'secure'.



Have a look at the 'compress' command .. 

http://software-download.name/command-line-ftp/howto.html

Might work, its been a while .. I seem to remember back in the 80's there was a way to automatically .zip up files on-server using ftp remote commands.  Been a long time since I've thought about that problem, though ..


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Jay Vaughan