From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 3 4:28:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8589114D70; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 04:28:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id NAA10210; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:25:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19991003132554.A9701@foobar.franken.de> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:25:54 +0200 From: Harold Gutch To: Matthias Buelow , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail References: <19991003072219.F728@altair.mayn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19991003072219.F728@altair.mayn.de>; from Matthias Buelow on Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:22:19AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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