#define AUTHOR "mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu ("Charles M. Hannum")"

/*
 * 
 *    For what it's worth, I have a shell script suite which takes, as input,
 *    the output of the nightly CVS run, and generates a list of files to
 *    retrieve via anonymous FTP.
 * 
 * That is a *very* bad idea.  Do *not* do it.  Should the CVS update
 * happen to be aborted for any reason, you will miss some of the files
 * that have been updated.

???

Do you mean if the CVS update is not posted that I will miss some of the
files?  If yes, then ok, I agree I will miss some of the files.  However
as I cannot convince our Network Operations group, their bosses or the
grand wazoo of the company that "sup" is a worthwhile service to allow
through the firewall, anon ftp is my only choice -- and, I suspect,
several others'.

If the transfer fails (I check the transfer by seeing what's there and
diffing it against what is *supposed* to be there), I just restart it.
No big deal.  In this case I don't understand from whence you draw
your conclusions.

 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 */

#undef AUTHOR	/* "mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu ("Charles M. Hannum")" */



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