Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:25:54 +0200 From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@altair.mayn.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <19991003132554.A9701@foobar.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <19991003072219.F728@altair.mayn.de>; from Matthias Buelow on Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:22:19AM %2B0200 References: <19991003072219.F728@altair.mayn.de>
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On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:22:19AM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: > BTW.. although risking to be off-topic by miles, I always liked the way > how NetBSD's ftp(1) (since 1.4 or so) implemented http and ftp URL > fetching and thus eliminated the need for a fetch(1) command. > Couldn't the FreeBSD ftp(1) be enhanced that way, [ObTopic, slime slime] > to use fetch(3) for that purpose? > > (Or just "steal" the NetBSD implementation, FreeBSD aren't the Knights > who say NIH, I would hope.) > NetBSD's ftp(1), was stolen^Wadded to FreeBSD quite a while ago, I think it happened around 2.2.2. Our ftp(1) has HTTP and FTP-support since then. It doesn't use fetch(3) though, but I guess one can live with that :). bye, Harold -- <Shabby> Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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