HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: emoreno@scheria.NMSU.Edu (Elena M. Castruita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sources
Subject: Re: Automated FTP?
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:22:06 GMT
	<NICKEL.92Dec9200738@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de>
	<1g7shpINN9pa@atlpyr.ga.pyramid.com>
	<1992Dec11.194130.14879@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
	<1992Dec14.020745.15321@maths.tcd.ie>
Organization: New Mexico State University, Department of Computer Science



Try using the .netrc file a little more.  For example (using the
previous example from tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)):
-----------------------------.netrc------------------------------------
machine mac.archive.umich.edu login anonymous password tim@maths.tcd.ie

machine ftp.apple.com login anonymous password tim@maths.tcd.ie 
	macdef init
		cd mac/game/arcade
		get bricklesplus2.0.sit.hqx
		get brickwell.sit.hqx
		quit


--------------------------------------end----------------------------------


When you ftp to ftp.apple.com, init ( the macro defined by macdef init )
is automatically run.  No need for extra files.

Also, here is a little program to help ftp'ing...


___________________________________cut here________________________________
#include <stdio.h>
#define BUF_SIZE 255
#define LINES    20
main(){

	char a, line[LINES][BUF_SIZE];
	int i,choice;
	FILE *pipe;
	char *home=(char *)getenv("HOME");
	char *command1="grep machine ";
	char *command2="/.netrc|cut -d\" \" -f2";
	char command[BUF_SIZE];

	(void)strcat(command,command1);
	(void)strcat(command,home);
	(void)strcat(command,command2);
	
	if((pipe=popen(command, "r")) == NULL){
		printf("Error opening pipe.\n");
		exit(0);
	}
	
	for(i=0;i < LINES && fgets(line[i],BUF_SIZE,pipe) != NULL;i++) {
		line[i][strlen(line[i])-1]='\0';
		printf("%2d...%s\n",i+1,line[i]);
	}
	do{
		printf("\nEnter your choice: ");
		scanf("%d",&choice);
	}while ( choice - 1 < 0 || choice > i );

	execl("/usr/ucb/ftp","ftp","-i",line[choice-1],(char *)NULL);
}


________________________________CUT HERE_________________________________
--

		   "I know what I want out of life.
	    I just don't know what I want to put into it."
	       Copyright @ 1991, Fitzgerald Enterprizes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: wyllys@melpar (Wyllys Ingersoll)
Subject: multiprocessing classes?
Organization: E-Systems, Melpar Division
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:37:14 GMT
Summary: looking for class/seminar on programming in a multiprocessed sparcs


Does anyone know of classes or seminars offered by Sun (or others)
about programming on multiprocessors such as the 6XX MPs or the
new Sparc 10s?  Specifically, how to write programs that take
advantage of the multiple CPU configurations.  If not classes then
how about good reference material. Are there special compilers
available that will help one to take advantage of this feature ?

Wyllys Ingersoll
E-Systems, Melpar Div
Ashburn, VA

Internet: wyllys@e-sys.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins)
Subject: Re: Uses for old CD-ROM's
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:20:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.202700.10846@cs.hope.edu> maloney@cs.hope.edu writes:
>Well, the most obvious is a frisbee, and a pretty darn good one at that,
>although the disc has a tendency to
>fly in a loop pattern... - / | \ - ad gravitum...

Then the guy with the shotgun tries to hit it....  I've done this with albums
and have always wondered what a CD would do.

Actually, pack rat that I am it never occured to me to get rid of the old CDs.
Hell, I've still got a 9 track tape with irreplacable stuff like my 1983
resume, rogue sources, beta nethack sources, etc.  Wonder what a reel of 9 track
tape would do when hit by a shotgun?  

jim

-- 
Plumbers Motto:  A flush beats a full house.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Jim Harkins                         [ucsd|uunet]!pacdata!jim
Pacific Data Products               jim@pacdata.com
--------------------------------------------------------------
From: hanson@pogo.fnal.gov (Steve Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.1 -- draconian licensing?
Date: 12 Dec 92 01:00:31 GMT
Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL
Reply-To: hanson@pogo.fnal.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: pogo.fnal.gov

In <BLYMN.92Nov30203536@coolibah.awadi.com.au> blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes:

>>>>>> On Thu, 26 Nov 92 11:21:28 GMT, g9129499@cc.uow.edu.au (Jeremy Lawrence) said:

>Jeremy> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:

>>Is it enforced?

>Jeremy> Are you kidding?! Sun _might_ notice if an organization the size of a
>Jeremy> university had ten licenses for 10000 users, but otherwise they wouldn't
>Jeremy> have a hope. Even if they did notice, they'd have to _prove_ the site was
>Jeremy> violating their license to do anything about it. 

>I am not so sure about that.  On our Sys V Interactive unix the login
>program actually knew how many people were logged on and would refuse
>new logins if the license limit was exceeded, to upgrade your license

This question was brought up at SUG this week - of course, the
licensing is not currently enforced.  However - there was some vague
mumbling about the likelihood that Sun would enforce login licensing
at some time in the future.
-- 
Steve Hanson - FERMILAB, Batavia, Il.
hanson@pogo.fnal.gov or hanson@fnal.fnal.gov

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: evan@neiman.east.sun.COM (Evan Marcus)
Subject: Sun's {F}SBE/S board blues
Reply-To: evan@fsg.com
Organization: Fusion Services Group, Inc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:28:26 GMT

I have a couple of questions relevant to the current shortage of SBE/S and
FSBE/S (and I'd bet DFSBE/S) boards from Sun...

1) Does anyone know the REAL cause of the shortage?  Is it a technical
issue that might affect boards that are currently in the field?

2) Does anyone have a clue as to when these boards might start shipping
again?  Current Sun estimate is Q1'93.

3) Are there any CURRENTLY SHIPPING 3rd party boards that will perform
these functions?

4) Does anyone know of a standard product that will allow me to take two 10
Base-T cables, and put them together, to make a private, point-to-point,
hub-free link?  (i.e. a 10 Base-T null-modem-like cable) I know about Black
Box, Gold Hill, and the other companies, and we are investigating.  But if
anyone has any specific information, that would be most helpful.

Thank you,
-- 
WHO: Evan L. Marcus (evan@fsg.com)  ||    Would you rather buy software from
WHAT: Fusion Services Group 	    ||    grad students (Berkeley) or from
WHERE: New York, NY  USA    	    ||    salesmen (AT&T)?	
This is a .signature virus.  Copy it into yours and join the fun.
From: dbhlve@acpub.duke.edu (Robert Newlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: PCNFS and Novell
Keywords: PCNFS, Novell
Date: 15 Dec 92 05:56:09 GMT

I am operating a Novell Token Ring Network.  Several people would like
to use the Sun PCNFS software to reach a database on a Sun elsewhere on
campus.  In order to do both, I have attempted to use Novells ODI
multi-protocol system.  It looks like it could work, but when I go to
connect, the system just sits there.  After I close, netstat shows all
IP packets as unrecognized & dropped.

Does anyone have Novell workstations running Sun's PCNFS? Any help or
ideas would be appreciated. 

Is there any better place to post this?

TIA,  Bob
.
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sources
From: mahesh@evb.com (B.G. Mahesh)
Subject: Do I need digital or analog telephone line?
Reply-To: mahesh@evb.com
Organization: SETT Inc.
Affiliate-Of: EVB Software Engineering, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:50:27 GMT


We want to get a dedicated phone line to connect our
systems to systems which are about 60 miles from our
office. On calling our telephone company they asked us
if we wanted digital or analog telephone line.
I don't know the correct answer. Please respond by email.

thanks

-- 

B.G. Mahesh      
mahesh@evb.com  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sources
From: maffeis@ifi.unizh.ch (Silvano Maffeis)
Subject: Re: Automated FTP?
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 16:56:15 GMT

... there is also a perl program for non-interactive ftp on

ftp.ifi.unizh.ch: pub/ftpget.shar.Z  (anonymous ftp)

Have fun
silvano

-- 
Silvano Maffeis       CS Dept. University of Zurich, Switzerland
   RFC822: maffeis@ifi.unizh.ch            voice: +411 257 43 27
   X.400: /S=maffeis/OU=ifi/O=unizh/PRMD=SWITCH/ADMD=ARCOM/C=CH/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: aycock@pogo.cuc.ab.ca (John Aycock)
Subject: Re: num-lock LED stays on
Organization: UUCP, University of Calgary
	<Bz2sqr.4Hr@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:58:37 GMT

This is what I use to fix the locked keyboards with the numlock light on.
It's worked every time for me sofar.  (WARNING: watch out if you're using
it remotely!  Sometimes the user the keyboard locked on isn't logged out
when it becomes unstuck.)  Standard disclaimer applies on the code.  Our
guess is that there's a race condition when the X server exits that causes
this, but we haven't been able to nail it down.  If anyone has had more
luck on this I'd like to hear from you.

BTW, you don't need to be root to run this.
:ja

--
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sundev/kbio.h>
#include <sundev/kbd.h>

main()
{
	int cmd = 1;
	int fd = open("/dev/kbd", O_RDWR);
	if (fd < 0) {
		perror("open");
		exit(1);
	}
	if (ioctl(fd, KIOCSDIRECT, &cmd) < 0) {
		perror("ioctl(KIOCSDIRECT)");
		exit(1);
	}
	exit(0);
}
--

  //\|_||\|	John D. Aycock		aycock@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
\/ \/| || |	(403) 285-8727		aycock@pogo.cuc.ab.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: thompsn@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Adam Thompson)
Subject: Re: debugging programs compiled with pc
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:35:23 GMT

In <1992Dec9.231642.15897@ida.liu.se> davpa@ida.liu.se (David Partain) writes:

>I'm trying to help a student here who's having difficulty debugging
>pascal.  The symptoms are very frustrating, and I haven't looked at
>pascal in years, so I'm turning to y'all to see if you have seen the
>problem before.

>Platform:
>SunOS 4.1.2, Sparcs, using PC-2.1

>Symptoms:
>Bunches of .o files, compiled with -g as they should be.
>Some functions seem to have symbols, some don't.  I start up the
>debugger (doesn't matter whether I use gdb, dbx, or ups), and try to
>break in a function.  Guess what? It doesn't know about that function.
>Of course, the function from which it was called it DOES know about, and
>it's in the same supposedly debuggable executable.  dbx can't even list
>the function, whereas gdb can.  this seems to be a result of being a
>function called by a function called by the main program, but I don't
>know.  Have any of you seen anything like this before?  Can anyone tell
>me what needs to be done so that we can debug pascal?

(sorry about the extensive quoting...)

The solution is a bit obscure -- ld(1) appears to generate a symbol
table that contains only identifiers declared at the 'main' level.
I think it is referenced as 'Program' instead of 'main'.  A systematic
fix is to have your main file consist of:

	#include <external_defs.h>

	begin
	  mainline;
	end.
and have the file external_defs.h (or .p or whatever you feel like!)
contain 'external' definitions of all functions.  That main file should
be compiled separately, and linked with mainline.o.  This should allow
dbx, at least to figure things out correctly.  If you use gdb
extensively, you should be aware that it works a *lot* better if you
specify the modula-2 as the language instead of C.

-Adam Thompson
 thompsn@ccu.umanitoba.ca
-- 
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Adam Thompson        University of Manitoba        Computer Services |
| thompsn@ccu.umanitoba.ca                    OLC Project - Unix Group |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: beach@StOlaf.edu (Daniel A Beach)
Subject: Re: Uses for old CD-ROM's
Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN USA
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:54:51

I can't believe that no one has mentioned that they make great coasters.
I have a couple demo software CD that I used for just such a purpose.
They are not only large enough to go under even the largest cup or glass,
but they clean up quite easily.

Dan
From: suqfagg@susssys1.reading.ac.uk (Graham Edward Fagg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: mbufs
Keywords: mbufs iomem
Date: 14 Dec 92 05:08:30 GMT
Organization: University of Reading



Dear All,
	
I have a problem, and Its pretty urgent (aren't they all).
(So I've cross posted, sorry: comp.sys.misc comp.sys.sun.adm "".misc
 comp.unix.admin comp.unix.misc)

The problem is with a sun4 IPC running SunOS 4.1.1 (BSD 4.3).
During boot up it comes up with an mbufs map full error... this appears
to cause general IO fails due to lack of memory.

Firstly the kernal is unaltered .... and theirs plenty disk space on / /usr
etc...

so why has the error occured and what will stop it and thus allow the
machine to boot up correctly... (it fails on rc.local due to memory problems).

Many thanks in advance,

Graham E Fagg.
Cybernetics Dept.
Reading University.
UK.

e-mail:	G.Fagg@rdg.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: svfenge@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steven Fenger)
Subject: Re: Problems bringing up FDDI.  Help!
Organization: The Great Beyond
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:48:32 GMT

In article <CPETTERB.92Dec8120622@mickey.javelin.sim.es.com> cpetterb@javelin.sim.es.com (Cary Petterborg) writes:
>I have just installed some FDDI/S boards into some IPX's and I'm
>trying to bring up the systems to use the FDDI instead of the le0
>interface.  I followed the installation procedures as provided.
>I used the same "name" that the systems had with just le0.  When
>I bring the systems up, both le0 and bf0 are running and appear to
>be configured the same (ifconfig -a).  If I disconnect le0, it gets
>timeout messages for the NIS server not responding on the system that
>is the NIS master.  If I bring the system up so that le0 is not
>ifconfig`d or I turn the le0 off, it gets similar messages.  For
>a while the other system seemed to run fine, but nothing outside
>the local network made it's way in or out.  When I looked at the
>netmask, it was 255.255.0.0 when it should have been 255.255.255.0
>and when I changed it I got another error message (don't remember
>now what it was, but it seemed to be about receive packets).
>
>Anyway, I am having quite a bit of difficulty, and if there is anyone
>that has a suggestion, please let me know what it is.  I would greatly
>appreciate it.

THIS PROBLEM WILL ALWAYS HAPPEN WITH SUN'S NORMAL FDDI/S DRIVER
INSTALLATION!

We found that you can get the FDDI board up if you move the module load
line in /etc/rc.local from where the Sun installation put it near the
top of rc.local to right after the netmask ifconfig line (right before
the default router gets added).  Sun does have a bug fix for this
problem; they tell you to modify /etc/rc.boot so that the host name
doesn't come from /etc/hostname.fb0.  THIS DOES NOT FIX THE PROBLEM.

I wish 4.1.x had the SVR4 rc file method since I'm getting real sick of
Sun turning out hap-hazard and conflicting device driver module loads.
-- 
Steven Fenger    svfenge@afterlife.ncsc.mil
Bumbles bounce!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Uses for old CD-ROM's
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:27:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.192044.224@pacdata.uucp> jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins) writes:
> Actually, pack rat that I am it never occured to me to get rid of the old CDs.
> Hell, I've still got a 9 track tape with irreplacable stuff like my 1983
> resume, rogue sources, beta nethack sources, etc.

My box of paper tapes got lost in a move, along with a bunch of irreplacable
software and momentos, but I've still got a lot of old listings...

If anyone has a copy of my game "stuck", distributed on one of the BSD
tapes, I'd sure like to get a copy again.
-- 
Peter da Silva                                            `-_-'
Ferranti International Controls Corporation                'U` 
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012 USA
+1 713 274 5180                            "Zure otsoa besarkatu al duzu gaur?"
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From: cmb@epcc.ed.ac.uk (C.M.Brough)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Information on SS-2 and SS-10 differences?
Date: 14 Dec 92 15:28:07 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.misc
Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre

Can anyone give me low level information on the differences between
SS-2 and SS-10 boards:

 - MBUS bandwidth?
 - main memory speed (60ns, 70ns, 80ns, ...?)
 - cache sizes and speeds?
 - (just so I have it straight) comparison of processor speeds (MIPS,
    clock rate, SPEC marks, the more the merrier!)

On a related note, what is the SBUS bandwidth? And SCSI-2? On the
SS-10, if there is a built in SCSI-2, is it going through an SBUS
channel internally?

Particularly on the SS-10, does I/O data have to pass over the MBUS to
get to main memory, or does the I/O sub-system have its own port onto
memory?

Thanks for any information (don't have any technical documentation
on-site). I'll summarise and post if interest is sufficient.

__________________________________________________________________________
Colin Brough    cmb@epcc.ed.ac.uk      Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: mikem@ll.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Information on SS-2 and SS-10 differences?
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 21:57:43 GMT

In article <1gk250INNh0s@cs.tut.fi> jja@punarastas.cs.tut.fi writes:
>
>Here's some information (from German iX magazine, July 1992)
>
>			SS 2		SS 10
...
>Thick Ethernet		yes		yes
>10BaseT Ethernet	no		yes

This might be somewhat misleading.  Neither the SS2 nor the SS 10
supports a "thick" RG-8 coaxial cable connection.  Neither do they
support a "thin" RG-58 coaxial cable.  You need a transceiver to
tie into either a Thick net or a Thin net cable, but neither Sparc
has a built-in ethernet transceiver.  In fact, it seems the days
of ethernet on coaxial cable are drawing to a close.  [I, for one,
will not mourn it's passing.]

The SS2 has an AUI port - a 15-pin D connector which plugs into an
external ethernet transceiver.  This is the traditional, old-style
sliding-latch ethernet connector for which Sun has taken a lot of
abuse over the years (because of conector reliability problems.)

The SS10 combines audio and ethernet AUI onto a single connector,
but a custom cable is needed to split out the AUI pins to a true
15-pin AUI connector.  Sun sells an appropriate cable, but it does
not come with the SS10 automatically.  (Several people have posted
about this not-well-documented subtlety, and how they got "burned"
by it.)  So take heed: if you need the AUI connector on an SS10,
you *must* order the breakout cable explicitly.

The SS10 *does* have a built-in 10baseT ethernet connector, which
the SS2 does not have.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael Maciolek - mikem@ll.mit.edu --- VOICE (617)981-3174 - FAX (617)981-0189
Network Engineer - MIT Lincoln Laboratory - Computer Telecommunications Systems
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: raob@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (richard oxbrow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.wanted,mi.sun,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: 101 Ways to Use an Old CD-ROM
Date: 20 Dec 92 22:06:16 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Electronic - University of Melbourne

In article <1992Dec17.112308.7119@thinkage.on.ca> kgdykes@thinkage.on.ca (Ken Dykes) writes:
>In article <1992Dec16.192517.10318@cs.hope.edu> jipping@cs.hope.edu writes:
>>new-fangled days of CD-ROM distributions, when you even get demo disks and 
>>"home shopping disks" (like Catalyst CD-Ware), I'm curious was folks have been
>>doing with old disks.
>
>CDs look luvly hanging from xmas trees.
>
>install them behind doorkobs.
>
>i wonder if they are toxic to aquarium fish...?
>
>glue them on cheap sunglasses for way k00l beachwear.
>
>get a few pegs and buil a real towers of hanoi set.
>
>miniature Ninja death frisbees.
>
>>At last year's SUG show in San Jose, Qualix had some CD-ROM coffee coasters:
>>just glue some plastic feet underneath and *presto*: new use for old media.
>

Or.. i can give you mum's smail address and  you can mail them to her..
she 'turns' them into art on canvas.. 8-)

	richard/..

richard oxbrow			   |internet    raob@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU
dept. ee eng,  uni of melbourne    |uunet       ..!uunet!munnari!mullian!raob
parkville, victoria         3052   |fax         +[613] 344 6678   	   
australia               	   |phone       +[613] 344 6782
From: labwm@emory.edu (The Morse Code)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Sun Shoebox For Sale
Date: 17 Dec 92 22:40:31 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

===================================================================
---------------------------> For Sale <----------------------------

Orig. Sun Shoebox forsale w/ 150 meg. hard drive. This Shoebox is
brand new (built in 1989) with a little more than 5 hrs of use and
that use was only to test it. I bought the thing before my Sun 3/60
died its final unpleasant death.

Included is one of those expensive DB 50 cables that Sun loves so
much.

Anyway, this thing walks for $350.00 plus shipping. Payment is by
COD...

E-Mail me.

William

Consult. / ITD ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Emory Law Student
==================================================================
From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Uses for old CD-ROM's
Date: 16 Dec 1992 15:03:56 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

How about offering them for free to net.folks?

There are many people who can't afford the CD-ROM new but would
love to be able to use one of them old.

Just MHO..

        -ans.
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@rcf.usc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: mrmike@geta.life.uiuc.edu (Mike McCaughey)
Subject: SCCS vs RCS
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:52:58 GMT


I am interested in hearing any comparisons between using sccs and rcs
for controlling different versions of the same file.

Reading the man page for sccs, it seems that sccs is better than rcs
because you can apply subcommands to every file in that directory. I don't
remember any similar command in rcs.

Is sccs fairly bug-proof? Is it better to learn sccs (currently unknown)
and forget about rcs? Does anyone already have a 'conversion' between
rcs and sccs (rcs 'rlog' = sccs '???' e.g.)

Thanks in advance.

mrmike

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sources
From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: Automated FTP?
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:07:45 GMT

pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott) writes:

>In article <1992Dec8.220145.5713@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
>morley@suncad.camosun.bc.ca (Mark Morley) writes:

>> Does anyone have, or know of, a utility that allows FTP to run
>> non-interactively (ie: read it's commands from a file).

>Elegant solutions that require making extra software that have appeared
>here notwithstanding, it's handy to know that if you don't need 
>anything more complex than just getting a particular file,

I doubt if anyone reading this group knows less about FTP than me,
but I find the following very simple recipe
allows me to retrieve files in the background.

First I make entries in .netrc like

machine mac.archive.umich.edu login anonymous password tim@maths.tcd.ie
machine ftp.apple.com login anonymous password tim@maths.tcd.ie

Then I write a script file like

cd mac/game/arcade
get bricklesplus2.0.sit.hqx
get brickwell.sit.hqx
quit

Then I give the command

% ftp mac.archive.umich.edu < script &

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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