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From: ric@diltd.demon.co.uk (Ric Harwood)
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 06:41:27 GMT
Organization: Discovery International Ltd
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Message-ID: <835684893.1611.1@diltd.demon.co.uk>
References: <31c2e7bd.14691630@news.demon.co.uk> <834878464snz@pair.com> <834921960snz@michaels.demon.co.uk> <835206024.5881.2@diltd.demon.co.uk> <slrn4snue7.5qr.alex@starfleet.zynet.co.uk> <ity4+CARgazxEwD6@helix.demon.co.uk>
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In demon.ip.support, <ity4+CARgazxEwD6@helix.demon.co.uk>, Mike
Clarke <mike@helix.demon.co.uk>, Mike Clarke wrote:
>In article <slrn4snue7.5qr.alex@starfleet.zynet.co.uk>, Alex McLean
><alex@starfleet.zynet.co.uk> writes:
>>To 'batch http' - download a file in the background on a Un*x machine, do
>>something like this:
>>
>> nohup lynx -source http://area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk/~alex/word-gen.tar.gz &
>>
>>You can then log off, and it will continue downloading the file.
Thanks Alex. That will be useful for getting big files from slow
places.
>With a service provider who offers shell account facilities perhaps, but
>not with the dialup ppp connections we use with demoon.
As you say, it works ok from a shell acount {;^)
Regards
Ric
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