[lug] Download file from a remote system

[Kenneth D Weinert]

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Carl Wagner wrote:

> I would like to be able to automatically dial into a remote box (modem
> only) and retrieve a file periodically (cron) say every 4-6 hours.
> The file would be a few K-bytes in size, that I could compress down to
> probably less than 1KB.  (It's temperature data).

Would a straight up scp work?  You could set it up so you don't need to
log in (by copying credentials) and it's basically just a copy of a file
after that.

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Ken Weinert
Artificial flowers cannot die, for life within them is illusion.

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