wondering if there is a way to do the following:

I have a directory on a university machine with a specific quota (couple hundred megs). Of this, there is a directory i want to preserve the exact structure of that is the majority of that device. thing is i can't tar the beast because i don't have enough room for the tar on the device. i need the tar onto another computer which i can either ftp or ssh to (maybe some otherstuff i don't know).

seems like the're should be a way via some command line manipulation to send (pipe?) the tar directly to some program which forwards it to the remote computer or something. this is kinda for my own education because i see i can copy the things as they are and then tar later, but still... any ideas?

John