On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 07:23:45 -0700, John E Petersen <jepeter...@utexas.edu> wrote: >Thanks Paul, but I'm having a hard time finding the precise version I would >like to archive on any ftp mirror. My scrape is actually working quite >correctly now, though, since I added a sleep in there -- the source and >machine-installation instructions are tidily tucked away in different >directories, with names, locations, and success/failure logged into a >key-value (more of a dictionary-ish, really) text file. I get that an ftp >request is more civilized, but this scrape is quite convenient for me. If >it is more palatable to the community, I can increase the sleep time in the >loop to a couple of minutes or even a few or more, and throw it on one of >my raspberry pis and forget about it for a while, since I'm not in a major >hurry.
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