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From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root)
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Subject: Re: Good FTP Mirroring script (tcl / expect preferred) ?
To: jlrobins@zappa.cs.uncc.edu (James Robinson)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 10:23:35 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <9601242232.AA05868@zappa.cs.uncc.edu> from "James Robinson" at Jan 24, 96 05:32:54 pm
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In a previous message, James Robinson said:
> 
> I'm looking for an expect based ftp mirroring script. Anyone have any
> nice generic ones ?
> 
> Thanks,
> James

I use mirror which is a perl4 script. It works pretty well. I never
got it to work well mirror FreeBSD however, but I was blaming that on
the size of the distribute and our firewall software.

Paul.

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