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From: Charles Reese <reese@chem.duke.edu>
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: 30 Jun 1996 02:31:53 GMT
Organization: Duke University
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References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com> <836073421snz@dsl.co.uk>
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com>
> kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com "Ken Bigelow" writes:
>
>> If you have a connection limited to 200 b/s, why not make the connection, start > the download, and then go to bed? Most dialers =
(Trumpet Winsock, the user PPP
>> program in FreeBSD, etc.) can have an inactivity timeout so that the connection > will shut down 5 minutes (or whatever) after th=
e transfer ends, so connection
>> time should not be a problem.
>
>In amongst all the grossly overlong lines above (whatever happened to the
>Usenet convention of writing no more than 72--76 characters per line?)
>it's easy to see that Ken lives in a world where the connection time is
>of limited or zero cost. Here in the UK, all telephone calls are charged
>for: even at the cheapest rate, the charge is still 1p/minute, and for
>other times of the day, and for non-local calls (many users do not have
>ISPs such as Demon, who provide local call access throughout an entire
>kingdom), the charge can be as great at 10p/min. At those rates, leaving
>a connection to plod along at 200B/s is *not* a realistic option.
>
>--
>Brian {Hamilton Kelly} bhk@dsl.co.uk
I'm jumping in here in the middle so the point may have already been
disscussed but one way to handle big http binaries (which I also
dislike) is to do a shell login to your provider and use a text based
browser (I use lynx) to download the file to your shell account and then
ftp it home from there. Of course if you don't have shell access...
Cheers
Charlie Reese
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