Re: Software for automatic FTP mirroring ?? {preferable perl}

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From: Thomas Lenggenhager
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:00

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In article <wx4trissxj.fsf@sophie.stat.math.ethz.ch>,
Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>I'm looking for some software that do 
>automatic FTP mirroring.
>
>I know I can just put an FTP job in our crontab,
>but my point would only to FTP things which are new or newer than my
>current version.
>
>Any hints, ideas ?
>
>"Of cource", a perl script would be the most preferred solution.

This is a perl script which is used heavily for all the mirroring on
ftp.switch.ch and many other ftp servers:

	ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/sources/mirror/

Original is from:
	ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/mirror/

Thomas

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