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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:38:55 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: setup.exe joblist for downloading
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Max,

At 00:19 2003-02-11, Max Bowsher wrote:
>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.

Hmmm... That big meany CGF said there was nothing--that's why I whipped 
up my script.


>Max.


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