On 08/12/2010 05:33 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Why do you need any other process involved to work with a data stream? If you > want to collect it to a remote file, you can | ssh remotehost 'cat> > path_to_file'. Just be sure to quote the redirection so it happens on the > remote side. > > At a guess it's the compression he is after. Over a slow link it could make a substantial difference. -- Benjamin Franz