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From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu>
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To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: misc/colorls
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On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  * I notice that colorls DEPENDS on ncftp2.2.  Is this really necessary?  It 
>  * seems a little overkill ...
> 
> Well, it FETCH_DEPENDS on ncftp, which means it is used for fetching
> only (i.e., not if you are using the package).  And yes it is
> necessary, the stock ncftp can't handle the "pack up on-the-fly"
> option of wu-ftpd.... :<

This works for me wih the old ncftp...

# Usage: get hostname filename

get() {
if [ \! -e `basename $2` ]
then 
        ( echo cd `dirname $2`; echo get `basename $2`; echo quit ) \
        | ncftp -r -d 15 -V 0 $1
fi
}

Marc.