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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!warwick!not-for-mail
  2. From: cudep@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
  3. Newsgroups: news.software.b
  4. Subject: Re: Two-hop UUCP feed with C-news
  5. Date: 23 Nov 1992 11:14:31 -0000
  6. Organization: Team Limpid's Meathead With Aptitude - Kunst und Wahnsinn
  7. Lines: 16
  8. Message-ID: <1eqeenINN2pj@spatula.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
  9. References: <Bxo10M.G3I@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <Bxot8K.4w8@world.std.com> <1992Nov22.214026.14662@tigger.jvnc.net>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: spatula.csv.warwick.ac.uk
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Nov22.214026.14662@tigger.jvnc.net> aggarwal@tigger.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal) writes:
  13. >Does anyone have a 'viaftp' sender ? I know that its easy to write,
  14. >but I guess handling of failed FTP's would require some thought,
  15. >and if someone's already done it, it would help.
  16.  
  17. No viaftp I'm afraid...
  18. but I've done a similar thing with "some other unnamed file transfer mechanism"
  19. and it worked well.  I've also heard of some people using rdist too.
  20. If you want to do this, look into bftp since it will handle retries etc.
  21.  
  22. Cheers,
  23. -- 
  24. \/ato - Ian Dickinson - NIC handle: ID17                   No-one is to molest
  25. vato@csv.warwick.ac.uk  ...!mcsun!uknet!warwick!vato           the wombat when
  26. /I=I/S=Dickinson/OU=CSV/O=Warwick/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/            anyone is
  27. @c=GB@o=University of Warwick@ou=Computing Services@cn=Ian Dickinson  watching.
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