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From: Chris Croughton <chris@keris.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 96 18:08:06 GMT
Organization: Keristor Systems
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Message-ID: <Snews.960701.180806.chris.7414@keris.demon.co.uk>
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In article <4r71bs$bpt@newsgate.duke.edu>
reese@chem.duke.edu "Charles Reese" wrote:
>I also connect via a dial up account, it is to Duke University but it
>shouldn't make much difference who provides your ISP service. If you
>have a shell account on your ISP machine
You still haven't got it. We don't have shell accounts on Demon's
machines, we have PPP/SLIP directly routing TCP/IP. It's not a
university account, we have our own nodes. If we want a continuous
connection we have to pay for it, not some educational institution.
> When the file is in my directory on the machine at Duke I login to
>Duke using ftp (WS_FTP is what I use) and ftp it from there. I can
>download files to Duke in 3-5 mins and then home in 15-20 mins that I
>spent hours trying to get directly and never did get cause it always lost
>the connection. Try it, you'll like it.
I wouldn't, it would cost far too much to call Duke.
> Using this approach has nothing to do with phone charges as I don't
>pay them (its a local call in US)
Bully for you. We *do* have to pay them, local calls aren't free in the
UK.
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