curl is part of the IBM Open Enterprise Foundation (OEF) and also available from the zopen community
As for the options I haven't given that much thought yet as I wanted to see if it would be helpful as I had heard that some sites block ftp. cbttape does not track downloads that I know of. On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 3:55 AM Paul Gilmartin <0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:15:38 -0600, Lionel B Dyck wrote: > > >If you are using the CBTView dialog (cbttape file 43) you know it > >currently uses FTP to get the information from the cbttape website. > > > >Question: Would having an option to use curl be useful? > > > At some sites the hard part might be getting (permission to get) > curl. Circa OS/390 I built it from source. > > Do you envision using the --etag-compare and --time-cond > options to avoid redundant downloads? That might require > a table of timestamps. > > Does cbttape.org track downloads? > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Lionel B. Dyck <>< Website:https://github.com/lbdyck "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
