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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!myrddin.demon.co.uk!dom From: dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk (Dominic Mitchell) Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: 24 Jun 1996 08:14:36 GMT Organization: Radio Gnome Invisible Lines: 24 Message-ID: <slrn4ssjjc.c0.dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> References: <31c2e7bd.14691630@news.demon.co.uk> <834878464snz@pair.com> <ity4+CARgazxEwD6@helix.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: myrddin.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.1 UNIX) On Sun, 23 Jun 1996 21:24:49 +0100, Mike Clarke <mike@helix.demon.co.uk> 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. > > With a service provider who offers shell account facilities perhaps, but > not with the dialup ppp connections we use with demoon. Yes, that's true. However, given the facility that Alex describes, It is relatively easy to build upon it with a few shell scripts and mail aliases to put together what is required. I haven't read the above well enough, so I am assuming that you want the pages downloaded onto a personal ftp site, from where you can pick them up later using ftp. -Dom