Robert Wolfe wrote to Alan Ianson:

RW>  AI> You know there is a new tarball nightly? I run wget from a script
RW>  AI> that only grabs it if it's newer than what I have now. I think the
RW>  AI> version number only changes if Michiel feels he's done what he set
RW>  AI> out to do. I run the following script from the directory that 
RW>  AI> contains mbsebbs-cvs.tar.bz2
RW> 
RW>  AI> === begin /opt/mbse/bin/getcvs ===
RW> 
RW>  AI> wget -N 
RW> http://www.mbse.dds.nl/mbse/mbsebbs/download/mbsebbs-cvs.tar.bz2
RW> 
RW>  AI> === end /opt/mbse/bin/getcvs ===
RW> 
RW> So do you just leave the bz2 file in your mbse directory then and wget 
RW> checks for the filedate, etc?

Yep, I'm not sure exactly what wget checks but that -N option seems
to do a good job.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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