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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: fetch(1) / fetch(3) patchkit available 
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[.....]
> We need generic FTP and HTTP functionality for a variety of
> applications (first and foremost, sysinstall and pkg_add(1)), and we
> need a command-line interface to the FTP and HTTP protocols
> (fetch(1)). We also need an interactive interface to the FTP protocol
> (for doing stuff like proxying). These are two very different needs;
> the fetch(3) library is well suited to the former three applications
> (sysinstall, pkg_add(1) and fetch(1)) but poorly suited to the latter
> (ftp(1)).
[.....]

What about a non-interactive command for pushing stuff via ftp/http ? =

This has always been lacking IMHO (``ftp -n <<EOF'' is full of =

gotchas).

I haven't actually looked at libfetch, but I would think that the =

functionality should be there.

> DES
> -- =

> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no

-- =

Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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