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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.fido.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!pierrot.demon.co.uk From: Terrance Richard Boyes <tez@pierrot.demon.co.uk> 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: Sun, 30 Jun 96 14:07:52 +0100 Organization: ECL.net Lines: 34 Message-ID: <9606301507.1z6c@pierrot.demon.co.uk> References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com> <836073421snz@dsl.co.uk> <4r4oup$o76@newsgate.duke.edu> <4r4oup$o76@newsgate.duke.edu> <4r4oup$o76@newsgate.duke.edu> <836115689snz@microvst.demon.co.uk> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pierrot.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [AMIGA 1.3 950726BETA PL0] X-NaMLServ: $VER: v0.9b <tez@pierrot.demon.co.uk> X-Mail2News-Path: unknown.demon.co.uk!post.demon.co.uk!pierrot.demon.co.uk Anthony R. Gold (tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk) wrote: > reese@chem.duke.edu "Charles Reese" writes: > > > I'm jumping in here in the middle so the point may have already been Yep. > > disscussed but one way to handle big http binaries (which I also Yep, it's been mentioned. > > dislike) is to do a shell login to your provider and use a text based > > browser (I use lynx) to download the file to your shell account and then > > ftp it home from there. Of course if you don't have shell access... Demon users do not have "shell" accounts, we are our own nodes, demon only supply a mail storage service and a gateway. > > But how is that any help? Can you diconnect from your shell, and > thereby stop paying call charges, while allowing your shell > hypertelnet to keep downloading? Or do you believe that Lynx nohup lynx URL But that's only applicable to unix, and is assuming that the ISP doesn't check that people aren't leaving unattended sessions working away. The nohup prevents the login being dropped when you exit. -- <URL:http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/1666> Team AMIGA Only a wizard can use a magic whistle.