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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: BatchFTP v1.02 for BSD Unix now available from SIMTEL20
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.071518.3972@uwasa.fi>
Date: 31 Oct 90 07:15:18 GMT
References: <KPETERSEN.12633998502.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <KPETERSEN.12633998502.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes:
>The following program is being announced here because it will assist
>users who have access to SIMTEL20 from BSD Unix hosts on the Internet.
>
>Now available via anonymous FTP from SIMTEL20:
>
>Directory pd3:<misc.unix>
>BATCHFTP102.TAR-Z
>
>BatchFTP (v1.02) is a very useful BSD Unix program to automate
>connections to anonymous ftp sites.  The program can be run as
>a background process while the user does other work or logs out.

Highly recommended, also by uwasa.fi archives, over "manual ftp" to
save connection time (and your nerves in times of unavailable
connections).  At uwasa.fi available as /unix/ts/batchftp102.tar.Z.
(I usually don't duplicate Simtel20 information to save bandwidth,
but here I make an exception.)

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun