cristy@eplrx7.uucp (John Cristy) (05/17/91)
Archive-name: ftp/client/xtp/1991-05-15 Archive: export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z [18.30.0.238] Original-posting-by: cristy@eplrx7.uucp (John Cristy) Original-subject: Re: Non-interactive ftp Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <1991May15.005136.20447@eng.umd.edu> ziegast@eng.umd.edu (Eric W. Ziegast) writes: > >Do you suppose someone could create a program to sign on as ftp and >recursively go through some specified directory and transfer the >whole thing in one non-interactive command? > Fetch contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu. You will find XTP in the ImageMagick/xtp directory. DESCRIPTION Xtp is a utility for retrieving, listing, or printing files from a remote network site, or sending files to a remote network site. Xtp performs most of the same functions as the ftp program, but does not require any interactive commands. You simply specify the file transfer task on the command line and xtp performs the task automatically. EXAMPLES To retrieve file display.tar.Z from host wizard.dupont.com, use: xtp -binary -retrieve display.tar.Z wizard.dupont.com To retrieve all the files from directory public/documents from host wizard.dupont.com, use: xtp -binary -retrieve documents/ wizard.dupont.com public cristy@dupont.com -- The UUCP Mailer -- comp.archives file verification export.lcs.mit.edu -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 30 2768599 May 13 14:26 /contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z found xtp ok export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z
tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (05/18/91)
Archive-name: languages/perl/comp-lang-perl/1991-05-17
Archive-directory: betwixt.cs.caltech.edu:/pub/comp.lang.perl/ [131.215.128.4]
Original-posting-by: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Original-subject: Re: Non-interactive ftp
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
From the keyboard of russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u):
:BTW Does anybody archive *all* the code that is posted to this group?
Barring news glitches, I have every article posted except for a few
in the beginning. So does Larry, I believe. But they aren't in
any decent retrieval system (I use MH, but it's far too slow for
complex retrievals.) From the FAQ:
5) Are archives of comp.lang.perl available?
Yes, although they're poorly organized. You can get them from
the host betwixt.cs.caltech.edu (131.215.128.4) in the directory
/pub/comp.lang.perl. Perhaps by next month you'll be able to
get them from uunet as well. It contains these things:
comp.lang.perl.tar.Z -- the 5M tarchive in MH/news format
archives/ -- the unpacked 5M tarchive
unviewed/ -- new comp.lang.perl messages since 4-Feb or 5-Feb.
These are currently stored in news- or MH-style format; there are
subdirectories named things like "arrays", "programs", "taint", and
"emacs". Unfortunately, only the first ~1600 or so messages have been
so categorized, and we're now up to almost 5000. Furthermore, even
this categorization was haphazardly done and contains errors.
A more sophisticated query and retrieval mechanism is desirable.
Preferably one that allows you to retrieve article using a fast-access
indices, keyed on at least author, date, subject, thread (as in "trn")
and probably keywords. Right now, the MH pick command works for this,
but it is very slow to select on 5000 articles.
If you're serious about this, your best bet is probably to retrieve
the compressed tarchive and play with what you get. Any suggestions
how to better sort this all out are extremely welcome.
--tom
--
Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
"So much mail, so little time."
-- comp.archives file verification
betwixt.cs.caltech.edu
total 1904
drwxr-xr-x 22 beau ug 1024 Mar 29 20:52 archives
-rw-r--r-- 1 beau ug 750297 Mar 20 15:44 perl4.0.tar.Z
drwxr-xr-x 69 beau ug 2048 Mar 4 22:18 bysubject
-rw-r--r-- 1 beau ug 126935 Feb 14 17:06 book_ex.tar.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 beau ug 68675 Feb 8 18:48 refguide.tar.Z
drwxr-xr-x 2 beau ug 1024 Feb 8 18:47 refguide
found comp-lang-perl ok
betwixt.cs.caltech.edu:/pub/comp.lang.perl/