In article <725c1a373fbc77e5@xxxxxxxxxx> you write: >I have a cluster of systems using FTP to mirror I-D's. Just the >.txt and index files. This is trivial to perform with FTP, and >I've been running the same FTP-based mirror script for over a decade. >The cluster I use doesn't support rsync, and likely never will, yet >without that it's still more than functional enough to work as a >distributed desktop environment. ... I don't care what OS you're running, but I do observe that rsync has been widely available for well over 20 years. Anything too old to run rsync strikes me as a corner case of a corner case. R's, John
