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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Consider using automated ftp (Was Re: Simtel20 Archives)
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.193852.11679@uwasa.fi>
Date: 25 Feb 91 19:38:52 GMT
References: <4NqwX1w163w@undrground.UUCP> <61639@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <61639@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v056ped5@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
:
>By the way Simtel is one of the slowest places in the world to get files from
>and even though they have a great library it would be worth your while to
>make sure that what you are looking for isn't available anywhere else before
>trying to get it from Sim20.

Don't forget the option of using automated ftp to cut down
connection load in using _any_ ftp site.  At garbo.uwasa.fi the
automated ftp facility is available as /unix/ts/batchftp102.tar.Z. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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