Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:04:24 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: various 'fetch' errors Message-ID: <199607182004.OAA02779@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 18 Jul 1996 13:01:39 CDT
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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? Yes. You are being naive. :-) Let's say I wanted to fetch 10-20 things. And I have microbandwidth to the rest of the world. I want them to happen sequentially rather than in parallel. Let's also say I have multiple users that want to do this (say 1-2 each and there are 5 of them), then the savings really kicks in because the files will then get transferred and there will be some chance at getting some bandwidth for interactive jobs. Warner
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