From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 8 05:06:36 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA27791 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 05:06:36 -0800 Received: from cabri.obs-besancon.fr (cabri.obs-besancon.fr [193.52.184.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA27778 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 05:06:32 -0800 Received: by cabri.obs-besancon.fr (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA18744; Wed, 8 Mar 95 14:05:36 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 14:05:36 +0100 From: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Message-Id: <9503081305.AA18744@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503081139.DAA04002@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> (asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Subject: Re: ncftp ftp://site/dir/foo.tar.gz X-Mailer: Emacs Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Satoshi" == Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= writes: > Is something like > ncftp -N ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/bin/ls.tar.gz > supposed to work when the other side is running wu-ftpd? It gives me > an error on my 2.0R machine (with ncftp replaced on Feb.9) and thud. Ncftp has problems with wu-ftpd if you try to get a directory foo/ as foo.tar.gz. > On the other hand, > echo "get /pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/bin/ls.tar.gz" | ncftp -N ftp.... > works.... You can also do "ncftp -N -c ftp://..... > your_file". There are alternatives to ncftp too (look in the TeX port). > Satoshi Jean-Marc ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Jean-Marc Zucconi | jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr Observatoire de Besancon | F 25010 Besancon cedex | PGP Key: finger jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr =========================================================================