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From: schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: grape.ecs.clarkson.edu traffic jam
Message-ID: <3183@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 20 Dec 89 23:17:52 GMT
References: <209@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Engg.
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I just have a couple of comments:

greene@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (John Greene) writes:

>.... Once you have decided on the files
>you would like you create a file like the following:

>open grape.ecs.clarkson.edu
>user anonymous yourname@yourmachine
>bin
>cd /whatever/directory

... Here I would add:
prompt

>mget file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6 file7 ....
>quit

>Then all you have to do is type "ftp -in < getfile".  Everything is done
>quickly and automatically.

I would add after the command: ">& somefile &"
This directs the output to somefile, and places the process in the background.

I wrote a very simple batch that tries to download some files from SIMTEL20,
and if it doesn't get all of them, it re-submits itself after about a 10 minute
delay and tries again. Of course there is a max retry limit.

>There is a way to execute a command at a specific time but I can't remember
>what it is right now.

It is "at" - see the man page.

>-- 
>John E. Greene    "People are just like frankfurters....You have to decide
>                   if you're going to be a hot dog or just another wiener" DLR
>TRW Systems Engineering and Development Division
>ARPA: greene@venice.sedd.TRW.COM  USENET: ..trwrb!venice!greene


		Steven
-- 
Steven V. Christensen
U.C. College of Eng.
schriste@uceng.uc.edu