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- From: denaumow@vela.acs.oakland.edu (David Naumowicz)
- Subject: Re: ftp querry
- Message-ID: <denaumow.721345686@vela>
- Organization: You mean that I belong to an organization??
- References: <1992Nov9.202756.3325@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:48:06 GMT
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- cs331333@umbc8.umbc.edu (cs331333) writes:
-
- > Does anyone now of a shell script that would allow me to
- >continually query an ftp site for entrance. Some sites only allow
- >very limited access, 1 or 2 people, and I'd like a program that
- >could just run along in the background. Or one that I could
- >contrab at 3 in the morning and have it look around, and get things
- >that I select for the next night. (Robocomm where are you? <grin>)
-
- There is a program called batchftp for unix systems. With it you may
- list the files you want (or which directories you want the contents of
- for more specific selection later.) and have it execute in the
- background. It will keep trying the site at odd intervals (to prevent
- 2 copies from syncing) until it makes it through. It will then get
- the files/info. It is very good.
-
- I origonally found it at Simtel (quite awhile ago, actually). but
- have since what it was origionally stored as (or even in which
- directory...) You might want to use archie to try to locate it...
-
- I hope this helps...
-
- Dave
-
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