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From: bill@qstools.com (Bill Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FTP Script
Date: 23 May 1996 05:45:01 GMT
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Scott Gregory (sgregory@pubspo.hq.af.mil) wrote:
: What is the best (an easiest) way to create a FTP script???
: 
: I'm trying to download multiple directories from another UNIX (SCO)
: box weekly and would like to set this up automatically with crontab,
: but I don't have any idea how (or where to look) to create a script.
: 

I'd recommend the 'mirror' PERL script, which is in /usr/ports
on the FreeBSD 2.1 CD.

-- 
Bill Cox                            Software Janitor
Raise taxes to cover the deficit?  Are you *crazy*??
They'll spend 1.3 times the amount we allocate them,
no matter how much it is.