I have fetched mirror 2.8 and made further patches to have it run
with perl 5.001m on my Linux-Elf system.

I have deleted vms support, so this might not be the best package for you.
It is also possible to get mirror 2.8 running with another new ftp.pl
and lchat.pl. (Though I have deleted that running version and now only use
this package that uses ftp.pl from perl 5.)

I haven't subscribed to the mailing list, but you might want to do so:
If you are interested in developing mirror (not just getting the
latest releases but actually doing work) there is a mailing list
mirror-people@doc.ic.ac.uk.  Subscribe by emailing to
mirror-people-request@doc.ic.ac.uk.   But please do NOT do this unless you
have the time to work on mirror.

The rest of the text is from the original mirror-2.8 source code.


Florian La Roche       florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de


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Mirror is a package written in Perl that uses the ftp protocol to
duplicate a directory hierarchy between the machine it is run on and a
remote host.  It avoids copying files unnecessarily by comparing the
file timestamps and sizes before transfering.  Amongst other things
can optionally compress, gzip, and split files.

It was written for use by archive maintainers but can be used by
anyone wanting to transfer a lot of files over ftp.


INSTALLATION:
You *may* need to change the values of $extra_path and $big_temp at
the start of mirror.pl.  This is very unlikely but possible.

If your system limits the length of a file name a lot then also look for:
	LIMITED NAMELEN
which is about 75% of the way thru mirror.pl.  I only know of one site using
this.


REMEMBER:

Objects in a mirror are closer than you think!
