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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Monthly FTP/Mailserver list
Message-ID: <TADGUY.90Jan16192107@diatomite.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 90 00:21:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: ertem@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU's message of 16 Jan 90 22:28:46 GMT

In article <1990Jan16.222846.6579@Neon.Stanford.EDU> ertem@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Tuna Ertemalp) writes:
> I set up a mechanism to extract the contents of FTP-sites using 'ls
> -CFRla' every day.

Please don't do this -- the -R and -F options to ls require a lot of
processing power.  Unless you know a site has recently had substantial
changes, you shouldn't need to do this but every month (or more)...

	...tad