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In article <104528@convex.convex.com> tchrist@convex.Com (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>Does anyone out there have an rdist that goes the other way, that
>is, one where the subscriber makes requests to a librarian and 
>pulls the files across rather than the master pushing them at the
>clients?

Yes - the name of the program is 'track'.  I think it originated at
Bellcore, but one place you can get it by anonymous ftp is from
athena-dist.mit.edu.  They have hacked with it some for Project
Athena purposes, but I think you'll find it usable.  (I'm not
an expert on this - we just started trying to learn to use it.)
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