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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > Can ftpget or at least a full ftp copy entire directories like
> > Steven's send/receive routines?
>
> I don't know ftpget (not on my box, either, though ftpput is).
> Some FTP clients can do that. Ncftp is an excellent app that I
> use on debian. There's a tgz for it on one of the BL packages
> pages.

The busybox 1.1.0 I compiled has ftpget.  Steven prefers to use wget
but I forget how to add the login:

wget http://login:password:URL  ?

> Steven's send script tars the dirs first, then sends them.
It takes longer to tar than to send on a slow computer.

> A very good day I had a few years ago was the day I deleted
> windoze from my hdd. And used a utility named "shred" to
> write random numbers over it 25X before formatting it in
> ext2 and swap.

Sometimes I need to read WORD files with original format, but I never did 
use the computer I set up to do that with WORDVIEW.  People send pdf 
instead.

> > and we have linux on the other
> > drive in the computer (or can run it from floppy disk and probably fit  
> > pure-ftpd in RAMdisk).
> >
> > I may just use dd between equal size partitions.
>
> Usually, it's better to format the drive and mount it and
> use cp -a. About windoze I don't know and don't care to.

After an hour or so I deleted the partitions and started over and used cp 
-a.  dd is fine between identical drives and I thought it had worked to 
clone Win98 but then Win98 kept complaining the drive was full (it was 
not).  dd is much faster.

> ----------------
>
> If you run pppd directly, as I do, here's the 'poff' script
> I aliased to 'f' in my /etc/profile:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> kill `ps | sed -n '/pppd/s/\( *\)\([0-9][0-9]*\)\( *.*\)/\2/p'`
>
> That just extracts the PID and feeds it to kill.

Steven (?) suggested something shorter:

kill `pidof pppd`
> Lee

Sindi