Date: Sun, 3 Dec 95 18:05:49 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu Cc: FreeBSD-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/colorls Message-ID: <9512031705.AA22874@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <199512021218.EAA00888@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> (asami@cs.berkeley.edu)
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>>>>> Satoshi Asami writes:
> * I am also behind a phone line (and sometimes at 2400bps) :-)
> * I wrote a ftpget replacement, and it has a (primitive) progression
> * indicator, it should work if you are behind a firewall, and is
> * compatible with ncftp. The program is very simple since it uses the
> * ftp code in src/release/sysintall/. Interested?
> Yes!
Look in ~jmz/ftpget/. 2 files are copied from /usr/src/release/sysinstall/
(ftp.c and ftp.h)
> We really need a little program that does only what we need, that we
> can understand, and fix easily. There is no need for interactive
> mode, for instance. All we need is an ability to fetch a file even
> from behind the firewall, optionally renaming it, and be able to deal
> with wu-ftpd's auto-packing.
> (I hope I didn't forget something else.) If yours can do that, let's
> try it out!
It can do that, but it needs to be extensively tested. On the other
hand, it probably need to be improved here and there.
> Satoshi
Jean-Marc
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