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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:43:13 CST
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- From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Novice vs. Expert vs. Compression
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue,
- 5 Jan 1993 11:31:19 CDT from <Neal_McBurnett@ATT.COM>
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- I have seen several postings that the best reason for compression is the
- ability to get many files at a time via ftp.
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- 1. One person wanted to be able to get whole directories.
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- Answer: type "prompt' to toggle prompting
- type "mget*" to get all files in the directory
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- 2. Another person wanted to be able to get .exe, .doc, .source files in
- one command.
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- Answer: type "prompt" to toggle prompting
- type "mget zoo214*" to get all the zoo214 files, .exe, .doc....
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- Happy New Year!
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- Thank you for your interest,
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- Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text
- Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext
- Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL 60532
- No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC
- hart @uiucvmd.bitnet or hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
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