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From: "Anthony R. Gold" <tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 96 06:21:29 GMT
Organization: Microvest Limited, London
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References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com> <836073421snz@dsl.co.uk> <4r4oup$o76@newsgate.duke.edu>
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In article <4r4oup$o76@newsgate.duke.edu>
reese@chem.duke.edu "Charles Reese" writes:
> 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...
But how is that any help? Can you diconnect from your shell, and
thereby stop paying call charges, while allowing your shell
hypertelnet to keep downloading? Or do you believe that Lynx
achieves a faster connection to an http server than a subscriber can
manage with netscrape or whatever? Or is the fundamental part of
this technique to fetch the file using your employer's phone bill?
Regards,
--
Tony - G3SKR / AA2PM email: tgold@panix.com
tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk
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