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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!sgigate.sgi.com!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.PBI.net!decwrl!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!qmw!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Followup-To: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:58:41 -0500 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4qqjih$fi@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <31c2e7bd.14691630@news.demon.co.uk> <834878464snz@pair.com> <ity4+CARgazxEwD6@helix.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. Translation: You can then log out of your session on a machine that's connected (logically) to the internet backbone and wait for the lynx to finish. Translation: You can then disconnect your PPP link, logging off from the demon-du gateway and having the www-proxy server continue to download and cache the file. I think people are talking at cross-purpose. The demon customers are interrested in minimizing the amount of time on the phone. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....