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From: rbj@uunet.uu.net (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: even better chat2.pl, and a useful (but simple) ftp client!
Message-ID: <1991May15.235542.3938@uunet.uu.net>
Date: 15 May 91 23:55:42 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.203058.23304@iwarp.intel.com> <132095@uunet.UU.NET> <1991May8.213911.15714@NCoast.ORG>
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allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) writes:
>As quoted from <132095@uunet.UU.NET> by rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim):
>| 
>| Why do you think "rget" isn't in the ftp client?
>| The answer isn't technical, it's political.
>+---------------
>
>I had a feeling someone would say that.  Read the code (and the rest of his
>message) --- it sends an ls -lR listing of all the GNU stuff, not the actual
>GNU archives.

Even so, consider the size of our ls-lR.Z:

376 -rw-r--r--  1 rick     371745 May 15 03:39 /usr/spool/ftp/ls-lR.Z

The file is probably a megabyte of so uncompressed.

and also: [rbj@uunet 29] zcat ~ftp/ls-lR.Z |wc
   39816  227715 1711169

We don't need people stat'ing 4000 files several times a day,
or worse yet, at night. As I said, please be careful.
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