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- From: dje@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca (Doug Evans)
- Subject: Re: transfer protocols
- Organization: Edmonton, Alberta
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:37:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.043705.772@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca>
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- ocon@bert.cs.byu.edu (John S. O'Conner) writes:
- >Does anyone know of a file transfer protocol that will allow me to
- >transfer a batch of files during a single session. I would hate to call
- >uucp twelve times to send 12 different files.
-
- Not sure I understand the problem (so the following may be off target).
-
- This is not a problem with uucp. For example, if I do
-
- uucp *.c canada!~
-
- then all files ending in .c in the current directory are queued
- for transfer to directory /usr/spool/uucppublic on machine 'canada'.
- (Believe it or not, such a machine exists and is a registered uucp site :-)
-
- This will work whether there is one .c in the current directory or
- two hundred, and assuming uucico (the program that actually does the
- transfer) doesn't run into problems (eg. line noise) all queued files
- are transfered in one session.
-
- And, just to be pedantic, I can replace the above with
-
- uucp file1 file2 file3 ... fileN canada!~
-
- and all the files will (normally) be transfered in one session.
-
- Perhaps the problem is in not understanding how uucp works (although
- I hate to suggest someone doesn't understand something when they really
- do ... if so, please forgive). The command 'uucp' just queues files
- for transfer. Program 'uucico' actually does the transfer: it transfers
- all files queued thus far (actually, it can get more complicated than this
- as there are various "grades" of jobs, but lets keep things simple). The
- command 'uucp' normally causes uucico to be run to actually do the transfer,
- but this can be disabled with
-
- uucp -r ...
-
- There are various reasons why one might want to do this, but I digress.
-
- Anyways, I'm probably way off target already, but hope this helps.
-
- >Can anyone suggest another newsgroup that may be able to address this
- >issue?
-
- comp.mail.uucp comes to mind. Not really sure whether it's "better" or not.
-
- :-)
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- Doug Evans | "You're just supposed to sit here?"
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