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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: anonymous ftp script..
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.161432.3745@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:14:32 GMT
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- > In article <1992Jul21.161626@ece.arizona.edu> mshah@ece.arizona.edu (Munil
- > A. Shah) writes:
- >
- > > I want to transfer many files by anonymous ftp. And I want to do
- > >it during the night by running a script. I am really poor with writing
- > >a script. How can I specify ftp commands(login name,password,get,etc..)
- > >in the script so that they should go run on ftp prompt and not on the shell
- > >prompt.?
- >
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- An easier way is with a package called bftp. (Background ftp)
-
- This is a menu driven program that constructs ftp scripts, and submits them to
- at to be run at a time you specify. The interface is kludgy, being designed to
- work on paper terminals, but the program works like a charm. Recommended.
-
- Can't remember where I got it; check archie.
-