Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:39:44 -0400 From: "Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers" <fty@mcnc.org> To: imp@village.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: ache@nagual.ru, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, current@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: was: various 'fetch' errors, now backround fetch Message-ID: <199607181939.PAA29647@robin.mcnc.org.mcnc.org>
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There WAS an implementation of "ftp" that did this. I believe it was done by the San Diego Supercomputer Center on Cray/UNICOS many years ago. I'll try to remember details and search to see if it still lives on .. - Frank >To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> >Subject: Re: various 'fetch' errors >Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), ache@nagual.ru, jkh@freebsd.org, > current@freebsd.org >Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:30:51 -0600 >From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> > >: > Oh, and I remember you also said you'll implement a "dummy mode" that >: > will let fetch do all the jobs of the ports manager while he's >: > sleeping. >: >: Ooooh, that's a slippery slope, Satoshi - pretty soon it's doing the >: job of the ports manager while he's awake, too, and doing it better >: and faster. Before you know it, you've been replaced by a button. :-) > >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.[*] > >Warner > >[*] Well, sort of doing some sort of at kludge. I want it automatic! > \\\\////\\\\////\\\\\////\\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\ Frank Terhaar-Yonkers, Manager High Performance Computing and Communications Research MCNC PO Box 12889 3021 Cornwallis Road Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2889 fty@mcnc.org voice (919)248-1417 FAX (919)248-1455 http://www.mcnc.org/hpcc.html
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