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Re: Batchftp - has it been upgraded to get WWW files?

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From: Tony Finch
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:00
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tez@pierrot.co.uk (Terrance Richard Boyes) wrote:
>Ian Wilson <URL:mailto:ian@wilsoni.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I heard some time ago that the Demon Batchftp service may be upgraded to
>> get files from World Wide Web addresses as well as the usual FTP locations.
>> Has there been an announcement from Demon with details of this facility?
>
>See demon.ip.support today!
>
>Message-ID: <35217e5b.0@muir-et2.staff.demon.net>
>
>It won't be implemented until Demon have sorted out other problems...

It has been implemented for months; the rollout has just been delayed
for various reasons. It's still available for use by the testers
group, though, & gets about 10 requests a day...

Tony.
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From: Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>
Subject: Re: Batchftp - has it been upgraded to get WWW files?
Date: 1998/04/01
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