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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: Thu, 27 Jun 96 04:51:51 GMT
Organization: Keristor Systems
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Message-ID: <Snews.960627.045151.chris.7102@keris.demon.co.uk>
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In article <slrn4snue7.5qr.alex@starfleet.zynet.co.uk>
alex@area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk "Alex McLean" wrote:
>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.
If you drop the modem connection that will kill it, though, which
doesn't solve the problem of slow sites with dialup connections - the
machine will still be logged on, even if you aren't looking at it (and
if you don't want to look at it, why not just switch to another
session?)
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