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downloading patches from slcc, Re: LYNX-DEV I18N work to submit
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Bela Lubkin |
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downloading patches from slcc, Re: LYNX-DEV I18N work to submit |
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Sat, 30 Aug 1997 18:08:07 +0000 |
Nelson Henry Eric wrote:
> > > -rw------- 1 user 8728 Aug 29 20:51 lynx2.7.1--2.7.1ac-0.57.diff.gz
> > > ^^^^
> > depends on how often you update (that's since April).
>
> No. It depends on how slow a person's connection is. You've missed
> the point. I was only able to get 8728 bytes before the connection
> gave out, i.e., Lynx printed the download option screen. Usually I
> can get 30,000-40,000 at that time of day. Anyway in plain English,
> no jabs no jive, at 4-5 in the morning with ftp I might be able to
> pull down a full distribution. I've just sort of gotten tired doing
> that. I say no more on this topic. Bye.
Henry, how reliable is *email* to your account?
What if you could send email to an automated account at slcc, and
receive in return an autopatch diff? i.e. something like:
$ mail address@hidden
diff 2.7.1ac-0.23 current
^D
It shouldn't be difficult to set up such a responder; the hard parts of
the task are already being done by the WWW version of autopatch. This
would just be a different path in.
Then it would uu- or mime-encode the archive and mail it back to you.
In your case, it might be true that such a large transaction would only
work at 4am -- but SMTP will hide those details. The results will show
up in your mailbox whenever the wind is good.
Would the autopatch folks consider setting something like this up? I
would also find it useful -- it's much easier on my slow/flaky/expensive
PPP link if I can get email rather than interactively provoking (and
supervising) a download.
[Extra bonus: can you make it also provide fotemods diffs -- e.g. "diff
2.7.1-fotemods-970601 2.7.1-fotemods-current"? -- just asking, just in
case...]
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