Some things for your Internet obzor: there is a new great FTP client for Unix from Yaroslavl, called lftp. Auto-reget, mirror, several connections at one probess, automatically detaches from the tty and enters nohup mode if you exit before you're done... Nice. It's reasonably stable, although it's in its 0.x version. Yeah, it did dump core when I tried to use some pattern-matching feature under BSDI 3.0, but it didn't crash while it was running 6 mirrors in one process for two weeks. Look at it. ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/file-transfer/lftp-0.11.1.tar.gz

A quote from README (I love the `Aviatorov st.' bit):

Mailing list
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There is a mailing list for discussion of lftp. It is managed by majordomo; to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@uniyar.ac.ru with `subscribe lftp' in body of message; to send letters to the list, send them to lftp@uniyar.ac.ru ; to unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@uniyar.ac.ru with `unsubscribe lftp' in body of message.

Author
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Author: Alexander V. Lukyanov (lav@yars.free.net) Postal address: Aviatorov st. 80-45, Yaroslavl 150051, Russia

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Vadik.

-- Vadim Vygonets * vadik@cs.huji.ac.il * vadik@debian.org * Unix admin
The fish doesn't think, because the fish knows... everything.
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