Xref: utzoo news.admin:14473 comp.mail.uucp:6570 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: BITFTP Message-ID: Date: 19 May 91 21:04:23 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com's message of Sun, 19 May 91 16:55:53 GMT Peter da Silva writes: If they can set up *one* script for *one* site, either with a 900 number or a service agreement, and type: Are you insisting on BITFTP compatibility, or would that just be one preferred option? I know there are lots of scripts around that know how to deal with that... uux - uunet!rftp ~/from-uunet Aw, just for the sake of argument make that uux - msen!rftp ~/from-msen and let's wrap some stuff around it so it's a one-liner: ftpget msen wilma.cs.brown.edu:/pub/xmx.tar.Z ~/from-msen i.e. ftpget service-provider host:/path/to/sources destination-directory Write a shell script so that you can pipe comp.archives articles into it and the sources come back at you, and I think everyone would be reasonably happy. Naturally, you'd replace "msen" with "uunet" or "uupsi" or "kremvax" depending on who's providing the service and how much it costs. And also naturally there would be an interface to the raw "OPEN, CD, GET" commands if you're dealing with a sufficiently goofy remote system that expressing things in terms of one-liners is not adequate to the task. --Ed emv@msen.com