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From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
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Subject: Re: ftp.freebsd.org acting funny?
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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.

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