ftp in background?

[Peter Murray]

In article <Jul.27.09.36.11.1990.20837 at athos.rutgers.edu>, masticol at athos.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:
> I would like to ftp in several files from a remote site (using
> anonymous ftp). The site is busy during most daylight hours, and even
> when I can connect, the connection has been unreliable. Is there any
> utility that can transfer files in background, and will retry on a
> broken or uncompleted connection?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> - Steve (masticol at athos.rutgers.edu)

The program you are looking for can be found at simtel-20 [26.2.0.74], in
on of the pd3:<unix> directories.  I believe the name is AUTOFTP.

Peter
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