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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!helix.demon.co.uk!mike From: Mike Clarke <mike@helix.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 21:24:49 +0100 Organization: home Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <ity4+CARgazxEwD6@helix.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: helix.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: helix.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Version 1.12 <sUsSKnVkRJjKnokYKoKZUxoirC> 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. With a service provider who offers shell account facilities perhaps, but not with the dialup ppp connections we use with demoon. -- Mike Clarke