From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 2 09:54:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA19113 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 09:54:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19069 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 09:54:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA00316; Sat, 2 May 1998 16:54:24 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA09417; Sat, 2 May 1998 18:54:07 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980502185407.16709@follo.net> Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 18:54:07 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp.freebsd.org acting funny? References: <19980502183606.64157@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Ben Cohen on Sat, May 02, 1998 at 05:49:49PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 05:49:49PM +0100, Ben Cohen wrote: > > > 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 :-) > > How do you get tab completion and command history/command line editing > when using /usr/bin/ftp? Mine doesn't do that. (FreeBSD 2.2.5) You upgrade to 2.2.6-stable or 3.0-current (no differences between those two). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message