Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 18:36:06 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.freebsd.org acting funny? Message-ID: <19980502183606.64157@follo.net> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzppvhwy6qe=2Efsf=40skejdbrimir=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_from_Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav__on_Sat=2C_May_02=2C_1?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?998_at_06=3A31=3A37PM_%2B0200?= References: <199805020010.RAA12061@implode.root.com> <19980502141757.54394@follo.net> <xzppvhwy6qe.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no>
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On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 06:31:37PM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> writes: > > A large fraction of Unix people use ncftp2. I'd hope you would > > reconsider - or if not, at least add a warning and a suggestion for > > another useable commandline FTP client to the login message. I've not > > yet seen another usable commandline FTP for Unix :-( > > The /bin/ftp client that comes with FreeBSD is actually quite nice > IMHO (OK, it doesn't have bookmarks like ncftp2 does, but it has > command history and command line editing which is all I ask for) TAB COMPLETION! :-) Hmm - seems ftp has gotten that, too, along with the command line editing (a merge from NetBSD that I'd forgotten). I'll probably switch back :-) However, /usr/bin/ftp only exist on *BSD - there are loads of other systems out there :-( Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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