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Re: UNIX newbie question
mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas) writes:
>joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn) wrote:
>>Ncftp is a wonderful way to download APPLE II SOFTWARE from the Internet.
>> -----------------
>>Some of the advantages of ncftp over ftp include:
>Heh. Since this thread's already here, I'll jump in-
OOOH! a Hijacking! :)
As I've said before, this would be marginally more appropriate for the
c.s.a2.comm group.
>'ncftp -r' lets ncftp attempt to connect to a site over and over if
>you don't connect the first time (ie too many users)
I sincerely hope that it waits some sane amount of time like 5-15
seconds before that retry. Otherwise, I can easily envision flooding some
poor ftp server so that no one gets any work done.
Notice that the Auto-Login feature which Joe is so enamored of is a
problem when you're transferring files between machines upon which you do
have accounts. It tries to log you in as anonymous, which is not what you
want -- ncftp -u will revert this behavior, but it's still potentially
quite annoying.
>You can type 'ncftp grind' or 'ncftp iowa' instead of
>'ncftp grind.isca.uiowa.edu' if you've previously connected to that
>site. (Btw, grind has a lot of Apple software and mirrors of other Apple
>sites.)
The wonders of history tracking and context-sensitivity -- known in
1960, brought to you in 1990.
>Now is anyone still using rn, csh, ed, or mail? ;-)
nn, csh/ksh, vi, and mail.
I can tolerate ELM for short bursts, I would use TCSH if it weren't
such a system load, and there are plenty of other editors that all suck,
too ... :) I've never seen a newsreader that I liked better. (notice I
didn't say more capable -- tin/xrn/rn/NewsWatcher/NewsGrazer do have other
feature sets, but I don't like them.
--
Anthony J. Stuckey stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
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