Hi, this is a very good message I read in this list, as I have the same working to do here. Since July 01, the night long distance telephone tariff will be only 300f that of daytime (from middlenight 0:00 to 7:00 AM), I am sure the new USENET-like network will be started since then. The skill mentioned this message will be adopted. It's very hard to do this on Windows 95/NT, even on NT 4.0 Server. The worst thing on Windows NT is: it missed the support for scripting language, like mentioned in this message. VB is good for develop GUI, but for sys admin like this it's tough, or nearly impossible. O'Reilly has a Perl resource Kit for Win32, I don't if the kits can do this for Win NT. Best wishes, Frederic
But I wanted _realy_ download at night when phone rates are cheap. (furthermore: my ISP does not charge time between uhh 0:00 and 6:00 am). But I did not want to use the alarmclock. ;-)
If you create the file .netrc in your home directrory, with entrys like:
default user anonymous password email@adress.de
these defaults are used when you start ftp. (no other way to get behind that password request of ftp)
I now can use:
ftp < script.ftp
with script.ftp like: open ftp.suse.com cd /suse_update get whatever/you/want /were/ever/it/goes/to get anything_else .... quit
I start this with "at", that makes it a nice method after all. fetched ghostscript update last night ;-))
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