Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:21:42 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Cc: "Brian L. Heess" <brian@krumm.commline.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anybody ported /usr/bin/fetch to SunOS? Message-ID: <m0vytnC-0006uFC@apple.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Feb 1997 05:12:06 -0500." <Pine.GSO.3.95.970223050859.16211B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> References: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970223050859.16211B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> wrote: > If all you want is the http and ftp downloads in one package, you > might consider trying to port ftp(1) from OpenBSD. Supposedly > it's a rough equivalent to fetch(1). Or something like the "wget" package (that can be grabbed from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu which, I think, gets it from its master site in Japan(?)) that can do both http & ftp grabbing....from its README: GNU Wget is a freely available network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the background, after having logged off. The recursive retrieval of HTML pages, as well as FTP sites is supported -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home ...etc... Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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