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- Path: sparky!uunet!coplex!disk!tony
- From: tony@disk.uucp (tony)
- Subject: Re: mild flame
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.003513.7296@disk.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Information Systems of KY
- References: <Aug09.201747.56693@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <CCZDAO.92Aug13143341@mips.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:35:13 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) writes:
-
- >In article <Aug09.201747.56693@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> flatau@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Piotr Flatau) writes:
-
- > I am concerned with some of the new .sty packages and their distribution
- > method. Case in point:
-
- > I tried to get "float" style from niord.shsu.edu
-
- > 1. For the unknown to me reason all the names are changed.
- > E.g.
-
- > float.tex is called float.float_tex
-
- > this requires, when FTPing, change of all file names!
- > Time consuming task.
-
- >Not necessarily, if your ftp client supports filename mapping.
- >Most Unix ftp clients have the "nmap" command to transform filenames
- >when files are fetched. For example,
- > ftp> nmap $1.$2_$3 $2.$3
- > ftp> get latex.titlepage_tex
- >would store the file locally as titlepage.tex
-
- >If you intend to use the "mget" command to get a wildcarded set of
- >files, and you're fetching from a VMS host which has file generation
- >numbers (such as niord, tex.ac.uk and ymir.claremont.edu), then it
- >helps to strip the ";n" generation using nmap as well:
- > ftp> nmap $1.$2_$3;$4 $2.$3
- >so you can just say "mget latex.*" to get all the files with the
- >"latex." prefix and have that, and the generation numbers removed, and
- >the "xxx_yyy" that's left renamed as "xxx.yyy".
-
- Well, I tried the "mget" command and I can never FTP more than 4 megs of
- data in any single session because the "remote server" (read: MY University
- site) always closes the connection when there are slightly more than 4 megs
- of data in my directory. For small data transfers mget works fine, but not
- for the hefty transfers of a major program. Is limiting data transmission a
- common practice at U.S. universities in the midwest?
-
- -=- Tony Safina -=- disk!tony@uunet.UU.NET -=-
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