Date: Mon, 4 Dec 95 21:37:02 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu Cc: FreeBSD-ports@freebsd.org Subject: ftpget [was: Re: misc/colorls] Message-ID: <9512042037.AA04404@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <199512041032.CAA28790@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> (asami@cs.berkeley.edu)
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>>>>> Satoshi Asami writes:
> * Look in ~jmz/ftpget/. 2 files are copied from /usr/src/release/sysinstall/
> * (ftp.c and ftp.h)
> Yes, it compiles fine. I installed it on my machine as well as thud
> to test it. I'm now doing a "make fetch" on thud to see how it works.
> * It can do that, but it needs to be extensively tested. On the other
> * hand, it probably need to be improved here and there.
> Ok, some suggestions:
> (1) Print out messages received from the other end. In particular,
> the ones that tell us why we can't connect (usually "There are
> already 300 ftp users" or some such), is one thing we definitely
> need to show our users.
There is no support for getting the reply from the ftp server in ftp.c
Of course this can be easily added, but this mean that we are going to
rewrite another ftp program :-)
> Since there is no easy way for the program to distinguish between
> useful information like that and other garbage ("This ftp site is
> sponsored by the generous donation of Moon Mycrosystems"), I
> suggest we print everything out. :)
> (2) Can you make it print out the size of the file right after the
> "file: foobar.tar.gz"? I don't think a full percentage ruler like
> ncftp is necessary, but it will be nice to see how much more we
> need to get.
This is what I wanted to do, but again, some functions are missing in
ftp.c (see above)
> (3) Also, printing out the transfer rate when we are done is one cool
> thing I miss. That gives you some idea who's close and who's not.
Easy :-)
> It seems to be working very well so far. At least it is able
> to handle sites behind firewalls, with wu-ftpd and on-the-fly
> packaging, without any special tricks.
> If you don't mind, I'll put together a small "package" (this is the
> "ports" list after all!) and put it up for ftp for people to try it.
> Speaking of trying, what I did was to add the lines
> NCFTP=/usr/local/bin/ftpget
> NCFTPFLAGS=
> to my /etc/make.conf. This bombs when the port's Makefile explicitly
> sets NCFTPFLAGS, but otherwise it allows one to test it without
> compromising "make world"-ability (i.e., no modification to
> bsd.port.mk, which will be clobbered by "make world").
There are 2 ports which set the -P flag, but this option is not
supported by the current version of ncftp.
> Satoshi
Jean-Marc
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