Hello all I am using udpcast-20070218-1.i586.rpm on OpenSuse 10.2 It seems that I can transfer (iso) files without problem, but I am unable to transfer directory trees through a pipe. commands # udp-sender --log log.txt --pipe "tar -cvzf - dir/" # udp-receiver --log log.txt --pipe "tar -xvzf - " I keep getting the following error in the receivers ---------------------------------------------------------------- amd:/some/dir # udp-receiver --log log.txt --pipe "tar -xvf -" Udp-receiver 2007-02-18 Compressed UDP receiver for (stdout) at 192.168.1.2 on eth0 received message, cap=00000009 Connected as #0 to 192.168.1.4 Listening to multicast on 232.168.1.4 dup2 -1->1: Bad file descriptor Press any key to start receiving data! ---------------------------------------------------------------- the sender shows the following line repeated ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timeout notAnswered=[0] notReady=[0] nrAns=0 nrRead=0 nrPart=1 avg=9106 ---------------------------------------------------------------- and the transfer stalls. The logs are empty in sender and receivers Any idea out there? :-) Thanks you all.