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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 1996 13:01:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: various 'fetch' errors
Message-ID:  <199607181801.NAA09388@right.PCS>
In-Reply-To: <199607181630.KAA00797@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jul 18, 96 10:30:51 am

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> Heck, I'd be happy with a lpr-like interface to fetch.  If there was a
> fetchd running in the background, and I said "fetch --background
> ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/R6.1/tars/xc-1.tar.gz --after tomorrow" it would
> queue the file for fetching and let me knwo when it is done.  That way
> I could queue up 20-30 things to get and then go to sleep.  I've
> wanted this feature in an FTP program for a long time and have *NEVER*
> seen one with it.[*]

Maybe I'm being naive, but wouldn't "at 1am + 2 days fetch ftp://...." do
what you want?
--
Jonathan



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