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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: setup.exe joblist for downloading
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:19:37 -0000
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Randall R Schulz wrote:
>> Richard, inspired by your inquiry, I whipped up a little something.
>> It's not well tested, but it should provide a starting point. It
>> generates a script that uses wget to retrieve all the binary
>> tarballs to the same place that Setup.exe would. As written, it 
>> will not retrieve source tarballs. It accepts only a single mirror
>> URL, which must use either the HTTP or the FTP scheme.

Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl will do this.

>> The biggest shortcoming of this script is its inability to
>> distinguish the current from the previous versions--it retrieves both.

And it can distinguish prev and curr, as well.



Max.


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