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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
Date: 2 Jul 1996 22:04:00 -0500
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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Terrance Richard Boyes (tez@pierrot.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Anthony R. Gold (tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: > 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.

Only on broken unix implementations :-)  I believe that demon use either
NetBSD or SunOS/Solaris, so *if* they did allow a shell account, *and*
they allowed access to lynx, we wouldn't have to type that nasty first
word.....

This thread has some terrible echos.... I'm sure most of what I'm reading
has already been said.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....