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Bug#2207: Description



Package: mirror
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: net
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
Version: 2.8-2
Depends: netbase
Recommends: mailx
Description: Mirror script for keeping ftp archives up-to-date.

Suggestion to change this into:
Description: Script for keeping ftp archives up-to-date.
 Mirror is a Perl program 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 time-stamps and sizes
 before transferring.  Amongst other things, it can optionally 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 via ftp.


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