FGET

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 8 December 1991
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NAME

fgetcmd, fget - download files from the FSP database

SYNOPSIS

fgetcmd filename ...

fget filename ...

DESCRIPTION

For each file named in the argument list, fgetcmd copies the file to the client's current working directory in the client machine. fgetcmd will perform csh file name globbing based on file and directory information obtained from the FSP database.

Since user's command shells generally cannot do the proper globbing for this program, it is recommended that user defines a shell alias or fucntion to turns off command shell globbing before running this program. csh example:

alias fget \(set noglob\; exec fgetcmd \!\*\)

ENVIRONMENT

The following variables associate this program with a FSP database:

FSP_HOST: The name or internet number of the machine with the FSP server.
FSP_PORT: The port number of the UDP socket used by the FSP server.
FSP_LOCALPORT: The port number of the UDP socket used by FSP client utilities. You may pick any number not currently used for other purposes. The main reason of defining this number is to ensure mutual exclusion between client utilities accessing the same FSP database.
FSP_DIR: The current working directory of the client in the FSP database. The root of the database is /.
FSP_TRACE: If this variable is set, fgetcmd will display the number of kilo-byte blocks transfered as transfer progresses.