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From: gcs@polari.UUCP (Greg Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
Message-ID: <4204@polari.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 91 22:42:09 GMT
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In article <1991May23.155151.1242@ecl.psu.edu> fenner@jazz.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
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>Why in the world would someone who's on the Internet want to use an MBAS to
>get something that's directly ftp'able?
>
 Good question.  When I first discovered it, I was struck by the convenience of firing off a request and going about my business, then "voila" small
uuencoded file in my mailbox...it beat firing up ftp manually, starting
up the download and sipping coffee for 15 minutes while the download
chugged away.  Then I discovered how to run an ftp session in
background (with the help of .netrc) and it wasn't so bad.
 After a week or so without bitftp my operation is still functioning...
and (like you implied) if I really need a file I can ftp it directly.
A nice convenience has been lost, but we carry on.


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