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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
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Subject: Re: BITFTP
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Date: 2 Jun 91 00:03:32 GMT
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In article <EMV.91May19170420@poe.aa.ox.com>, emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
> 
> 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

Ed, maybe it's time for you to start putting unique identifiers on
comp.archives articles (like cbip's <vnnnimmm>, or whatever they
are).  Then msen can offer include by reference:
          carefget msen <vnnnimmm>:3rd-file ~/from-msen
and msen consults the verification at the end of article <vnnnimmm>
and retrieves that file.  Wildcarding etc. follows.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com