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cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) writes:

>In article <Aug09.201747.56693@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> flatau@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Piotr Flatau) writes:

>   I am concerned with some of the new .sty packages and their distribution
>   method. Case in point:

>   I tried to get "float" style from niord.shsu.edu

>   1. For the unknown to me reason all the names are changed. 
>   E.g. 

>   float.tex    is called      float.float_tex

>   this requires, when FTPing, change of all file names!
>   Time consuming task.

>Not necessarily, if your ftp client supports filename mapping.
>Most Unix ftp clients have the "nmap" command to transform filenames
>when files are fetched.  For example,
>  ftp> nmap $1.$2_$3 $2.$3
>  ftp> get latex.titlepage_tex
>would store the file locally as titlepage.tex

>If you intend to use the "mget" command to get a wildcarded set of
>files, and you're fetching from a VMS host which has file generation
>numbers (such as niord, tex.ac.uk and ymir.claremont.edu), then it
>helps to strip the ";n" generation using nmap as well:
>  ftp> nmap $1.$2_$3;$4 $2.$3
>so you can just say "mget latex.*" to get all the files with the
>"latex." prefix and have that, and the generation numbers removed, and
>the "xxx_yyy" that's left renamed as "xxx.yyy".

   Well, I tried the "mget" command and I can never FTP more than 4 megs of
data in any single session because the "remote server" (read: MY University
site) always closes the connection when there are slightly more than 4 megs
of data in my directory.  For small data transfers mget works fine, but not
for the hefty transfers of a major program.  Is limiting data transmission a
common practice at U.S. universities in the midwest?  

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