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- From: guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan)
- Subject: Re: .netrc entry for default ftp connects
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.213803.28779@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Keywords: ftp netrc
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 21:38:03 GMT
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- In article <smr.716471679@hitkw14> smr@hitkw14.pki-nbg.philips.de (S.Riehm) writes:
- -} [script deleted]
- -}
- -} eek! that script adds a line to the end of your .netrc file every time
- -} you ftp somewhere... why don't you just read the man page to get the
- -} answer...
-
- Well, that was, in my opinion, a serendipitous effect of the script.
- I like to know where I've been. On a couple of occasions, it has saved
- me a great deal of time trying to remember where I picked up a piece of
- software. Much faster than archie. (Especially nowdays, has anyone else
- noticed a tremendous slowdown in the speed of archie searches in the last
- couple of months? I see it no matter what archie server I connect to.)
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