From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 23 22:30:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA01683 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [206.63.206.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA01678 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:30:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from apple.statsci.com [206.63.206.4] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0vytvp-0003wMC; Sun, 23 Feb 97 22:30 PST Received: from statsci.com [127.0.0.1] with smtp by apple.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0vytnC-0006uFC; Sun, 23 Feb 97 22:21 PST Message-Id: To: Tim Vanderhoek cc: "Brian L. Heess" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anybody ported /usr/bin/fetch to SunOS? References: In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Feb 1997 05:12:06 -0500." Reply-to: scott@statsci.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <20333.856765302.1@statsci.com> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:21:42 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tim Vanderhoek 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