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echo: locsysop
to: Jeff Green
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-08-07 08:20:38
subject: Net provider

PE> Your complaint is the speed of the links outside of the place you are
PE> dialling.  autoftp will (apparently) schedule an FTP for 3am, and
PE> then the next day, you can download it from your local area, which
PE> would presumably be at 28.8k!  

JG> Nice idea but I don't do anything like that automatically unless it's free 
JG> or at a fixed cost eg calling you costs 25c fixed. I have that set to a 
JG> maximum of four times also :-) Matra is $1/hour so it can build up if 
JG> things freak out. I don't trust technology that much.

No, you dial them (manually), run a script called autoftp, and then the
next day, you dial them (manually) and download the file.  Try doing a
"man autoftp".  BTW, this is all from memory.  BFN.  Paul. 
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