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Subject: Re: discussion of porting Ports to other things?
From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
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 * md5 is easy.  But fetch is impossible!  Literally.  It relies on aspects
 * of stdio that are only in 4.4BSD and there seems to be no portable
 * equivalent.  This is one hellishly non-portable program!

You may want to use ncftp.  That's what we used to do, at least that
thing compiles on many platforms.

Satoshi