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From: greene@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (John Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: grape.ecs.clarkson.edu traffic jam
Message-ID: <214@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 89 17:19:13 GMT
References: <209@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> <3183@uceng.UC.EDU>
Reply-To: greene@venice.sedd.trw.com (John Greene)
Organization: TRW Information Networks Div
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In article <3183@uceng.UC.EDU> schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen) writes:
>I just have a couple of comments:
>
>>open grape.ecs.clarkson.edu
>>user anonymous yourname@yourmachine
>>bin

>

>prompt

The "-i" option of the ftp command disables interactive prompting.

>>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.

Don't forget to use the "-v" option or all you will get in "somefile" is a 
connect message and a goodbye.  The -v will report all transfer statistics
as well.  



-- 
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
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