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To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 10:57:52 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <9504200143.AA21826@cs.weber.edu> you write:
>Redirecting the ncftp input from /dev/null to cause it to exit on
>failure fixes this.  Looping can be provided with a shell "while".

ncftp does exit on failure (or, at least, when I was installing SNAP-950322 at 
IETF it did), and the install script doesn't notice the failure and goes on.  
I spent lots of hours trying to figure out how to recover from having 
installed everything *but* the bindist.

  Bill