Re: Cacheing at archie.au (was Re: US link is upgraded)

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From: Peter N Lewis
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 01:05

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In article <1oke00INN43m@rastaban.cc.deakin.OZ.AU>, ccw@deakin.edu.au
(Craig Warren) wrote:
> 
> Anyone who has ncftp installed on their Unix box (and I recommend
> you do), might like the following script which uses the alex 
> filesystem/cache to fetch files from overseas.
> 
> I call this alex, and when I want to get something, I tend to say
> 
> 	alex some.site.overseas:/some/path/name/to/ftp &
> 
> Sure, it takes a little longer, but who really cares how long FTP 
> takes?
> 
> Written by Michael Henry...

Excellent script!  And it uses perl too :-).  Seriously though, everyone
should install and try out this script, it works like a charm - now for a
Mac version :-)
   Peter.

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