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From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
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Subject: Re: Trying to find bftp ("Batch" FTP)
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.223253.20946@cbfsb.att.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 22:32:53 GMT
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In-Reply-To: markr@phx.mcd.mot.com's message of 3 Jun 91 22: 19:28 GMT
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>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Rennebaum <markr@phx.mcd.mot.com> writes:

Mark>      Has anyone seen or heard of Public Domain sources for bftp
Mark> (a kind of "batch" ftp) that runs under Unix system V?

Mark>      Also, does anyone have the FTP protocol specs rfc959 or
Mark> rfc1068?  I would (in the event that bftp cannot be found) like
Mark> to write a C program that talks to TCP-IP that mimics FTP.  Has
Mark> this application been done before?  Are there sources for this?

I kill 1 1/3 birds with one stone... shouldn't be too far from Sys V too.

ftp=ftp #(mine was called "pftp" --DJ)
#From: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman)
#Newsgroups: alt.sources
#Subject: retrieve RFC's automatically from uunet
#Date: 11 Apr 91 22:22:30 GMT
#Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
#
#I find this little script handy, it retrieves RFC's automatically
#from uunet via anonymous ftp and sticks them on stdout.
#So, instead of keeping your own little collection of RFCs
#hidden away somewhere and forgetting what directory you
#put them in, you can just use
#
#% rfc index | more
#% rfc 1217 | lpr	(A personal favourite. Get this one. It's funny.)

#!/bin/sh
# rfc NNN
# retrieve rfc NNN from uunet, put it on stdout
# assumes rfc's are in uunet:/rfc/rfcNNNN.Z
#
# Actually the uunet people would prefer it if you ftp'd things
# from 'ftp.uu.net', so we retrieve things from that machine.
#
# uunet conveniently has files called "index" and "rfc-index"
# in the /rfc directory, so this script will also let you
# retrieve those.
#
# sahayman
# 1991 04 10


PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:usr/bin export PATH

# a little hack so that we can say "rfc index" or "rfc rfc-index"
# as well as "rfc 822"

case "$1" in
"")		echo "$0: Usage $0 [NNN] [index] [rfc-index]" 1>&2; exit 1 ;;
[0123456789]*)	file=rfc$1.Z ;;
*)		file=$1.Z ;;
esac

${ftp?} -n ftp.uu.net <<EOF
user anonymous $USER@`hostname`
binary
get rfc/$file "|uncompress -c"
EOF